On November 28th, the parliament's legal affairs committee approved several amendments to the proposed directive that have made bankers and regulators hoppingmad.
This (it has to be said, unhelpful) effort by China's critics in Congress to micro-manage America's defence relations with Taiwan has China hoppingmad.
And the president was said to be hopping, Texan mad by a remark attributed to the chancellor's then justice minister comparing his political tactics to those of Adolf Hitler.