China threatens 'countermeasures' against UK over Hong Kong crisis

Beijing describes US efforts to raise controversial security law with UN as pointless'

Beijing has responded with defiance to international criticism of its Hong Kong national security law, threatening countermeasures against the UK and the US and describing Washington's efforts to raise the issue at the UN security council as pointless".

One day after Beijing's legislature approved plans to move ahead with sweeping anti-sedition legislation in Hong Kong, foreign ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian warned countries that Hong Kong is purely an internal Chinese matter" and that no other country has the right to interfere".