{"id":54949,"date":"2023-05-09T06:35:56","date_gmt":"2023-05-08T21:35:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/may\/08\/canada-expels-chinese-diplomat-zhao"},"modified":"2023-05-09T06:35:56","modified_gmt":"2023-05-08T21:35:56","slug":"canada-expels-chinese-diplomat-for-alleged-intimidation-of-lawmaker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=54949","title":{"rendered":"Canada expels Chinese diplomat for alleged intimidation of lawmaker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Zhao Wei is accused of gathering information on Conservative MP Michael Chong in retaliation for criticism of China\u2019s Uyghur policy<\/p>\n<p>Canada has expelled a Chinese diplomat after an intelligence report accused him of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/may\/03\/michael-chong-justin-trudeau-harassment-canada-china\">trying to intimidate a Canadian lawmaker<\/a> critical of China\u2019s treatment of its Uyghur Muslim minority.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCanada has decided to declare persona non grata Mr Zhao Wei,\u201d the Canadian foreign minister, M\u00e9lanie Joly, said in a statement on Monday. \u201cThe decision has been taken after careful consideration of all factors at play.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/may\/08\/canada-expels-chinese-diplomat-zhao\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zhao Wei is accused of gathering information on Conservative MP Michael Chong in retaliation for criticism of China\u2019s Uyghur policyCanada has expelled a Chinese diplomat after an intelligence report accused him of trying to intimidate a Canadian lawmak&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":864,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[246,41,244,50,319,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-americas","category-asia-pacific","category-canada","category-china","category-foreign-policy","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54949","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/864"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54949"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54949\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54950,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54949\/revisions\/54950"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}