While maintaining a restrictive domestic system, Rumania has taken a fairly independent foreign policy line.
In the wake of the landslide triumph of Mr. Abe's Liberal Democratic Party earlier this week, the principal state-run news media in China have already been promising a tougher foreign policy line from the government, especially over the islands.
The militant faction, on the other hand, tended to follow the foreign policy line of the People's Republic of China and called for the reunification of the nation by military means and that no negotiations should be undertaken with the Americans.
Mr. Bush simply reverted to foreign-policy lines from his stump speeches.
He will be able to toe his own foreign-policy line.
He has also long taken a foreign-policy line notably softer towards China than that of either Mr Abe or Mr Aso.
But he adds that Mr Sarkozy's "foreign-policy line changed because he's a politician, and wants to win the elections".Moreover, voters are unconvinced that they are any safer as a result.
More likely he will toe the government's foreign-policy line set by Mr Tusk and Radosław Sikorski, the foreign minister.A more telling sign of the trend in Poland's foreign policy was that Sergey Lavrov, Russia's foreign minister, participated in an annual powwow of Polish ambassadors.
And as the market economy develops and the state sector decays, people will feel freer and bolder, while the party will become ever more corrupt.As long as there is relative unity among the country's top leaders, China will be able to withstand a greater degree of social and economic instability and maintain a generally pragmatic foreign-policy line.
Obama appeared to have drawn his constitutional line at FISA (as he appears to have drawn his foreign-policy line at the war in Iraq).
He has defied one of Beijing's foreign policy red lines by hosting the Dalai Lama at Clarence House, and on their most recent encounter, he even held hands with the Tibetan spiritual leader, a man reviled in Beijing as a dangerous separatist.
