The application from Taiwan, which Beijing regards as a renegade state, was among three submitted on deadline day. 台湾被中国视为一个叛离省份,是在截止日提交申请的三者之一。
Mr Zhang's own path from renegade to state darling may contain such unspoken calculations. 张艺谋自己由叛逆者到政府宠儿的人生道路,可能也体现了这样的思路。
Yet there is a precedent: only this week, the new US ambassador to Libya raised the possibility of one day selling arms to that formerly renegade state. 不过这里有一个先例:就在上周,美国驻利比亚新任大使增加了美国向这个曾经的叛逆国家出售武器的可能性。