{"id":76267,"date":"2026-02-07T14:09:48","date_gmt":"2026-02-07T05:09:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/feb\/07\/china-overturns-death-sentence-of-canadian-robert-lloyd-schellenberg-in-sign-of-diplomatic-thaw"},"modified":"2026-02-07T14:09:48","modified_gmt":"2026-02-07T05:09:48","slug":"china-overturns-death-sentence-of-canadian-in-sign-of-diplomatic-thaw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=76267","title":{"rendered":"China overturns death sentence of Canadian in sign of diplomatic thaw"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Robert Lloyd Schellenberg was detained on drug charges in 2014 before Canada-China ties nosedived in 2018<\/p>\n<p>China has overturned the death sentence of Canadian Robert Lloyd Schellenberg, a Canadian official said on Friday, in a possible sign of a diplomatic thaw as prime minister <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/mark-carney\">Mark Carney<\/a> seeks to boost trade ties with Beijing.<\/p>\n<p>Schellenberg\u2019s lawyer Zhang Dongshuo, reached in Beijing on Saturday, confirmed the decision was announced on Friday by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/china\">China\u2019s<\/a> highest court.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/feb\/07\/china-overturns-death-sentence-of-canadian-robert-lloyd-schellenberg-in-sign-of-diplomatic-thaw\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Robert Lloyd Schellenberg was detained on drug charges in 2014 before Canada-China ties nosedived in 2018China has overturned the death sentence of Canadian Robert Lloyd Schellenberg, a Canadian official said on Friday, in a possible sign of a diplomat&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":206,"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":[246,41,244,50,3279,49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-americas","category-asia-pacific","category-canada","category-china","category-trump-tariffs","category-xi-jinping"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76267","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\/206"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=76267"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76267\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76268,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76267\/revisions\/76268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=76267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=76267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=76267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}