Purposefully Hard Line的意思|示意

有目强硬派 Despite its efforts to accommodate North Korea's idiosyncratic political system, China was apparently caught off guard by the recent developments. The news that North Korea had built a sophisticated uranium enrichment plant was received with incredulity by Chinese media outlets. The normally nationalistic Global Times cited experts who cast doubt on China's diplomatic strategy and said that North Korea had been “purposefully hard-line.”