China's Wang warns against foreign interference in Hong Kong

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi on Sunday defended Beijing's move to bring about a controversial new security law to firm up its control over Hong Kong and said that the excessive unlawful "foreign meddling" in the former British colony has placed China's national security in serious jeopardy.

Warning against any foreign interference in Hong Kong amid strong statement by US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo who called the new law "a death knell to city's freedom, Wang said Hong Kong affairs are China's internal matter , and "no external interference will be tolerated."