1.   Keating told the Dalai Lama that while Australia recognized Chinese sovereignty over Tibet, his government would be forthright in speaking out against human rights abuses.

2.   Although Hong Kong is under Chinese sovereignty, passengers will find that Chinese censorship rules do not apply here.

3.   And while all insist publicly that they intend to remain in Hong Kong under Chinese sovereignty, many publications are quietly looking at alternative locations.

4.   As Chinese sovereignty approaches, Hong Kong feels anxiety but also enthusiasm.

5.   Before the handover, many people had predicted that no treaty between Britain and China would be a match for the ineluctable march of Chinese sovereignty.

6.   Beijing has long regarded the flights of U.S. spy planes, which hug the Chinese coast almost daily on electronic eavesdropping missions, as an affront to Chinese sovereignty.

7.   But China is arguing that the crew breached Chinese sovereignty and may bear legal liability for the collision, in which a Chinese fighter pilot was lost at sea.

8.   But will the transition to Chinese sovereignty, despite all the promises, see the dislocation of the intricate mechanism which makes Hong Kong work?

9.   China has long regarded the flights of U.S. spy planes, which hug the Chinese coast almost daily on electronic eavesdropping missions, as an affront to Chinese sovereignty.

10.   Democracy groups, now under Chinese sovereignty, plan marches and rallies.