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A shooting threat sent to Vancouver’s Queen Elizabeth Theatre earlier this year bore the name of an outspoken critic of the Chinese regime. Posing as Sheng Xue, a Chinese Canadian pro-democracy activist, the sender threatened to “enter as a spectators” and open fire if a performance by the U.S. dance company Shen Yun went ahead.
The threat turned out to be one of more than 140 false threats the dance company has received over the past year, many of which have been traced to sources in China. Both Sheng Xue and Shen Yun have long been in Beijing’s crosshairs–Sheng for her activism, and the company for its work to showcase “China before communism.”…