The Canadian government is urging travellers to China to exercise a high degree of caution due to "the risk of arbitrary enforcement of local laws."
The warning comes as Chinese officials have handed down a death sentence to Robert Schellenberg from BC, an alleged Canadian drug smuggler.
Schellenberg was originally given a 15 year prison sentence after a 2016 trial, but a Chinese court announced the new punishment yesterday.
Speaking on the decision, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said, "I will say it is of extreme concern to us as a government, as it should be to all our international friends and allies, that China has chosen to arbitrarily apply the death penalty as in this case facing a Canadian."