But Yunshi Wang, director of the China Center for Energy and Transportation at UC Davis, said California still has a unique role to play because of the sometimes confrontational tone coming from Washington.
The Emperor's more notable political successes were achieved primarily because of the non-confrontational and cooperative manner with which he approached both issues and the partisan figures with whom he had to deal.
Last week, at another news conference, he cut off a reporter who used the word "maintain" in a question, calling the word inappropriate because of its confrontational connotation.
Bergh, nicknamed the Great Meddler by newspaper reporters because of his confrontational style, was particularly horrified by the cruelty he saw directed at working horses, the primary beasts of burden at the time.
The couple's popularity has dipped severely in opinion polls because of their confrontational style of governing and the administration's refusal to adjust its populist economic policies amid falling foreign investment and heavy capital flight.
In the long sweep of Tory politics, the confrontational, polarizing style of Thatcher is the exception.
Lord Tebbit, a former party chairman, muddied this message, telling the BBC that most women were unsuited for politics because of its confrontational nature.But generally it was the "inclusive" message which came through most strongly at the conference.
The North said it postponed the reunion because of the "reckless and vicious confrontational racket" of the conservative government of Park Geun-hye, the South Korean president.
Let me widen the scope of the question by applying it to the city in which I live much of the year, Kolkata – a city with a turbulent political history and an extraordinary cultural one, once the capital of India under the British, demoted from that status in 1911 because of its confrontational nationalism.
The NPC's proposal leaves no chance that a candidate will even need make the ballot against China's will.Defending the NPC's decision in press conferences in Beijing and Hong Kong, Li Fei, chairman of its Basic Law committee, insisted that "some people in Hong Kong can never be chief executive" because of their "confrontational" stance.
