The UK was going down "a wrong path," Chinese MFA spokesman Wang Wenbin said amid expectations that UK Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab will announce the suspension of the extradition agreement with Hong Kong, AFP reported.

According to him, Beijing resolutely opposes any interference in its internal affairs. 

"We urge the UK not to go further down this wrong path, in order to avoid further damage to China-UK relations," Wang said. "Recent erroneous remarks and measures concerning Hong Kong have seriously violated international law and basic norms governing international relations... China strongly condemns this and firmly opposes it."

He noted that Beijing will "oppose interference in Hong Kong affairs by outside forces" and that judicial independence was "not affected" by the new security law.

He also responded to Raab's comments about Beijing's accusations of human rights violations against ethnic and religious minorities in northwest Xinjiang.

Raab told the BBC on Sunday that it was "clear that there are gross, egregious human rights abuses going on... it is deeply, deeply troubling."

Wang called the comments "nothing but rumours and slander". "The Xinjiang issue is not about human rights, religions or ethnic groups at all, but about combating violence, terrorism and separatism," he said.