A Chinese court has sentenced a Canadian man to death for drug smuggling, a ruling sure to aggravate already sour relations between Beijing and Ottawa following the arrest of a senior Chinese executive in Canada.
- Relations between the two nations are already strained over arrest of Huawei CFO
- Schellenberg had conspired to smuggle 222kg of methamphetamine from China to Australia
- Human rights organisations estimate China executions to be around 2,000 annually
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