1.   Congress, which must approve any necessary modification of existing legislature, is in recess.

2.   Its chairman, Gladys Li, crisply suited and precise in her manner, told the Preparatory Committee that its plans to abolish the existing elected legislature were illegal.

3.   The Chinese have recently said that the anti-subversion laws soon to go before the existing legislature will also have to be rewritten.

4.   Beijing dismantled an existing elected legislature at the handover, saying its creation violated the Chinese-British agreement on the transfer of power.

5.   China says the existing legislature was elected under rule changes devised by Gov. Chris Patten without its consent.

6.   China says the existing legislature must go because it was elected under rule changes to which it never agreed.

7.   China says the existing legislature was elected under rules it never approved, and must be disbanded and fresh elections held.

8.   China had said the existing legislature must go because it was elected under rule changes it never agreed to.

9.   China says the existing legislature must go because it was elected under rules it never approved.

10.   Right now a liberalized anti-subversion law is going through the existing legislature.