US negotiators have brokered the release from Chinese prisons of three Americans: Mark Swidan, Kai Li and John Leung. Swidan faced a death sentence on drug charges. Li and Leung had been charged with espionage. The World’s Marco Werman talks with Sophie Richardson, a visiting scholar at Stanford University about the swap.
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