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China’s Death Sentence Against Canada’s Schellenberg Is Terrorism

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China’s Death Sentence Against Canada’s Schellenberg Is Terrorism
People walk past the Canadian Embassy as a Chinese court upheld the death sentence passed on Canadian citizen Robert Lloyd Schellenberg for drug smuggling in Beijing on Aug. 10, 2021. Noel Celis/AFP via Getty Images
Anders Corr
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On Aug. 10, Canadian Robert Schellenberg lost an appeal against a death sentence handed down in a northeastern Chinese court.

Anders Corr
Anders Corr
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Anders Corr has a bachelor's/master's in political science from Yale University (2001) and a doctorate in government from Harvard University (2008). He is a principal at Corr Analytics Inc. and publisher of the Journal of Political Risk, and has conducted extensive research in North America, Europe, and Asia. His latest books are “The Concentration of Power: Institutionalization, Hierarchy, and Hegemony” (2021) and “Great Powers, Grand Strategies: the New Game in the South China Sea" (2018).
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