You need to read the given passage and construct a question about the information present in the passage. The question should be answerable from the passage. Most importantly, only those questions are allowed whose answers cannot be determined from a single sentence. Do not generate questions that require only a single sentence to answer. Instead, try to combine two sentences and create a question from that combination. Do not create open-ended questions, i.e., the answers to them cannot be found precisely from the information provided in the passage.

[Q]: Paragraph- Sent 1: Into the 21st Century: As 1997 drew nearer, it became clear that the Chinese government had no intention of renewing the 99-year lease on the New Territories.
Sent 2: Negotiations began, and in 1984 Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher signed the Sino-British Joint Declaration, in which Britain confirmed the transfer of the New Territories and all of Hong Kong to China in 1997.
Sent 3: For its part, China declared Hong Kong a "Special Administrative Region" and guaranteed its civil and social system for at least 50 years after 1997.
Sent 4: Although China's Basic Law promised that Hong Kong's existing laws and civil liberties would be upheld, refugees began flowing the other way.
Sent 5: The British Nationality Act (1981) had in effect prevented Hong Kong citizens from acquiring British citizenship, and thousands of people, anxious about their future under China's rule, were prompted to apply for citizenship elsewhere, notably in Canada and Australia.
Sent 6: The protests in 1989 in Beijing's Tiananmen Square sparked sympathy marches in Hong Kong, and further increased tension with China.
Sent 7: Some companies moved their headquarters out of Hong Kong.
Sent 8: Ironically, as the handover approached, the British granted the Hong Kong Chinese more political autonomy than they had done since the colony was founded, including such democratic reforms as elections to the Legislative Council.
Sent 9: Since the handover in July 1997, China has generally followed a hands-off policy.
Sent 10: Many who fled have returned.
Sent 11: What controls heartbeats in Hong Kong are the fluctuations of the Hang Seng Index, foreign currency exchange rates, and skyrocketing property prices.
Sent 12: In short, the status quo prevails.
Sent 13: Everybody hopes Hong Kong will remain stable, but everyone also has their doubts.
Sent 14: In the meantime, the philosophy is to seize present-day opportunities in the thriving economy.
[A]: what two countries were involved in the Sino-British Joint Declaration in 1997?

[Q]: Paragraph- Sent 1: Tokugawa Takes All: When Hideyoshi died in 1598, he hoped to have his five-year-old son continue his "dynasty," initially under the tutelage of five regents.
Sent 2: But one of the regents was Ieyasu Tokugawa, who had been biding his time at Edo for 12 years, nurturing dynastic ambitions of his own.
Sent 3: Of the cunning, ruthless triumvirate that came out on top at the end of the country's century of civil war, Tokugawa was without doubt the most patient, the most prudentand most treacherous.
Sent 4: He moved quickly to eliminate his strongest rivals, crushing them in 1600 at the great Battle of Sekigahara (near modern Nagoya).
Sent 5: During its subsequent two and a half centuries of rule from the new capital established at Edo, the Tokugawa organized a tightly controlled coalition of some 260 daimyo in strategic strongholds throughout the country.
Sent 6: The allegiance of this highly privileged and prestigious group was ensured by cementing their ethical principles in the code of bushido, "the way of the warrior": loyalty to one's master, defense of one's status and honor, and fulfillment of all obligations.
Sent 7: Loyalty was further enforced by holding the vassals' wives and children hostage in Edo.
Sent 8: All roads into Edo, the most famous being the Tokaido Highway, had checkpoints for guns coming in and for wives going out.
Sent 9: One of the most effective ways of keeping a tight rein on the country was to cut it off from the outside world, to keep Japan Japanese.
Sent 10: At first, Ieyasu Tokugawa was eager to promote foreign trade.
Sent 11: He wanted silk and encouraged the Dutch and British as good, nonproselytizing Protestants just interested in trade.
Sent 12: But he didn't like the Portuguese and Spanish Catholic missionaries, who he felt were undermining traditional Japanese values.
Sent 13: He banned their activities in 1612 and two years later ordered the expulsion of all missionaries and unrepentant Japanese converts.
Sent 14: Executions and torture followed.
Sent 15: Converts were forced to renounce their faith by trampling crucifixes and effigies of Jesus and Mary.
Sent 16: The Catholic Church has counted 3,125 martyrs in Japan from 1597 (beginning under Hideyoshi) to 1660.
Sent 17: In 1635 the Japanese were forbidden, on pain of death, to attempt to travel abroad, and Japanese citizens already overseas were prevented from returning, in case they brought back subversive Christian doctrines.
Sent 18: Western books were banned, as were Chinese books that mentioned Christianity.
[A]: Give an important date in Japanese history that marks the "closing of Japan" to the outside world and give three examples of this isolation policy.?

[Q]: Paragraph- Sent 1: On December 4, as news came in about the discoveries in Jordan, National Security Council (NSC) Counterterrorism Coordinator Richard Clarke wrote Berger, "If George's [Tenet's] story about a planned series of UBL attacks at the Millennium is true, we will need to make some decisions NOW."Sent 2: He told us he held several conversations with President Clinton during the crisis.
Sent 3: He suggested threatening reprisals against the Taliban in Afghanistan in the event of any attacks on U.S. interests, anywhere, by Bin Ladin.
Sent 4: He further proposed to Berger that a strike be made during the last week of 1999 against al Qaeda camps in Afghanistan-a proposal not adopted.
Sent 5: Warned by the CIA that the disrupted Jordanian plot was probably part of a larger series of attacks intended for the millennium, some possibly involving chemical weapons, the Principals Committee met on the night of December 8 and decided to task Clarke's Counterterrorism Security Group (CSG) to develop plans to deter and disrupt al Qaeda plots.
Sent 6: Michael Sheehan, the State Department member of the CSG, communicated warnings to the Taliban that they would be held responsible for future al Qaeda attacks."Sent 7: Mike was not diplomatic," Clarke reported to Berger.
Sent 8: With virtually no evidence of a Taliban response, a new approach was made to Pakistan.
Sent 9: 13 General Anthony Zinni, the commander of Central Command (CENTCOM), was designated as the President's special envoy and sent to ask General Musharraf to "take whatever action you deem necessary to resolve the Bin Laden problem at the earliest possible time."Sent 10: But Zinni came back emptyhanded.
Sent 11: As Ambassador William Milam reported from Islamabad, Musharraf was "unwilling to take the political heat at home."Sent 12: The CIA worked hard with foreign security services to detain or at least keep an eye on suspected Bin Ladin associates.
Sent 13: Tenet spoke to 20 of his foreign counterparts.
Sent 14: Disruption and arrest operations were mounted against terrorists in eight countries.
Sent 15: In mid-December, President Clinton signed a Memorandum of Notification (MON) giving the CIA broader authority to use foreign proxies to detain Bin Ladin lieutenants, without having to transfer them to U.S. custody.
Sent 16: The authority was to capture, not kill, though lethal force might be used if necessary.16Tenet would later send a message to all CIA personnel overseas, saying, "The threat could not be more real.
[A]:
In which way was Mike not diplomatic?