Chinese state media claim death sentence for Canadian on drug charges not a pressure tactic

Beijing is not putting pressure on Canada by sentencing a Canadian to death for drug smuggling, and any suggestion it was doing so showed 'rude contempt' of China's law, its state media said.

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