Historically, domestic instability has tended to mean that China adopts a more hardline foreign policy (of course, Taiwan is not considered a foreign policy problem for Beijing, but one of internal politics).
This, of course, annoyed hardline Republicans responsible for the policies the activists protested.
He had been photographed attending planning meetings for the Russian March, a hardline nationalist march that has coursed through Moscow, sometimes violently, every November since 2005, chanting such slogans as "Russia for Russians!" Liberal parties had reacted to the Russian March with horror, branding it a neo-Nazi parade.
An opinion survey last week found that his rightwing coalition, Likud Beiteinu, formed with the hardline foreign minister, Avigdor Lieberman, was on course to emerge from the poll as the biggest party in Israel's parliament, the Knesset.
Tusk, a former Prime Minister of Poland who is regarded as a centrist, is in no position, on his own, to insure that Germany and other hardline European countries agree to this course of action, but there are also indications that France and Italy, the second- and third-biggest countries in the eurozone, are working behind the scenes to bring about a compromise.
Israel, which faces a much more serious threat from a nuclear Iran than the US, is, of course, welcome to take a more hardline position.
He remained publicly critical of Johnson over the coming years; in April 2014, he admitted that while he had once feared Johnson as "the most hardline right-wing ideologue since Thatcher", over the course of Johnson's mayoralty, he had instead concluded that he was "a fairly lazy tosser who just wants to be there" but who does very little work.
In the course of her long stewardship Cosima overcame the misgivings of the hardline Wagnerites patrons who believed, like Nietzsche, that Wagner's works should not be entrusted to a non-German.
Over the course of the Iranian nuclear negotiations, France had been one of the most hardline participants, repeatedly pushing for more concessions from the Iranians.
These days, when it attacks him as a hardline right-winger, Labour often seems to be fighting a foe that no longer really exists.Of course, there is time for the Tories to fluff it.
