Commentary Last week, China’s state-run tabloid Global Times ran an article, based on information from an inside source, which laid out the evidence that stood as the basis for sentencing Canadian national Michael Spavor to 11 years on spying charges in a case linked to Huawei. Spavor’s trial was held in secret. The article caused quite a stir as this is the first time that information on Spavor’s case was “leaked.” Spavor is one in a growing line of Canadians targeted by Beijing, to be used as political pawns, to get the Canadian government to change policy, or more often, interfere in its judicial system for the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) benefit. Other Canadians include Robert Schellenberg, whose initial prison sentence was recently revised to the death penalty; and Michael Kovrig, a former Canadian diplomat whose sentence has not yet been announced. What has not been much discussed is why …