Hong Kong's leader Carrie Lam has said other countries "have no place" interfering in the territory, as she robustly defended a controversial national security law planned by China.
The law would ban treason, secession, sedition and subversion. Critics say it would limit the city's freedoms. Many fear it would be the end of the "One Nation, Two Systems" arrangement made between the city-state and the Communist Chinese mainland in 1997 when it was handed back by the British.
But in her weekly press conference, Ms Lam said it was a "responsible" move to protect the law-abiding majority.
She denied that the law would curtail the rights of Hong Kongers.
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