China defends death sentence for Canadian convicted of making "illegal drugs" скачать в хорошем качестве

China defends death sentence for Canadian convicted of making "illegal drugs"

China's foreign ministry on Thursday defended a Chinese court's decision to sentence a Canadian national to death on charges of manufacturing the drug ketamine amid heightened tension between the two countries. Spokesperson Wang Wenbin stated that drug crimes were very serious and China's death penalty "is a helpful deterrent and prevents drug crimes". The Guangzhou Municipal Intermediate Court announced Xu Weihong’s penalty on Thursday and said an alleged accomplice, Wen Guanxiong, had been given a life sentence. The brief court statement gave no details but local media in the southern Chinese city at the heart of the country’s manufacturing industry said Xu and Wen had gathered ingredients and tools and began making ketamine in October 2016, then stored the final product in Xu’s home in Guangzhou’s Haizhu district. Xu Weihong is the third Canadian to be sentenced to death for drug-related crimes in China since Canada detained Huawei CFO Meng Wanzhou in 2018. China also said on Thursday that it was firmly opposed to the U.S. government's action to block Chinese web apps, with Webbin telling reporters that the move went against market principles and had no factual basis, urging the United States to "correct its mistakes." The Trump administration said on Wednesday it was stepping up efforts to purge "untrusted" Chinese apps from U.S. digital networks and called the Chinese-owned video app TikTok and messenger app WeChat "significant threats." For more info, please go to https://globalnews.ca/news/7254238/ca... Subscribe to Global News Channel HERE: http://bit.ly/20fcXDc Like Global News on Facebook HERE: http://bit.ly/255GMJQ Follow Global News on Twitter HERE: http://bit.ly/1Toz8mt Follow Global News on Instagram HERE: https://bit.ly/2QZaZIB #GlobalNews #China