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Since the People’s Republic China (PRC) and Canada established formal diplomatic relations in 1970, the past 45 years have witnessed important progress in judicial and law-enforcement cooperation between the two countries (Beare in Global Transnational Crime: Canada and China, 2010; Luo in The Globe and Mail, 2015). In 1994, Canada became the first country to enter into a treaty on mutual legal assistance in criminal matters with the PRC. Over the years, China and Canada have enjoyed increasing cooperation in the field of criminal justice.
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Zhao, M. (2016). The Death Penalty in China and Its Impact on Sino-Canadian Criminal Justice Cooperation. In: Cao, H., Paltiel, J. (eds) Facing China as a New Global Superpower. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-287-823-6_6
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