You really want to claim that everything Levada does reflects Vatican policy, more than an official instruction of the Sacred Congregation for Propaganda which was approved by the Holy Father and recently confirmed as authoritative by the Holy See's actual envoy to the Catholic Church in China, viz., Msgr. Nugent?
What's really indefensible is the attempt to perpetrate what is simply a total untruth, as shown by LOTI's anemic attempts to defend his statement that Bishop Gao suffered from "pressure from the Vatican to merge with heretic bishops loyal to the Chinese government". His proof? Apparently the Canadian bishops and Levada are now "the Vatican", whereas an authoritative instruction to the faithful Chinese bishops is not representative of "the Vatican", even if confirmed by the Holy Father himself.