[Buddha-l] Dalai Lama's brother dies in US

[Dan Lusthaus]

> From this obituary:
> 'Mr. Norbu led a major monastery at the very young age of 27 and
> soon was caught up in the trauma of the Communist invasion of
> Tibet in 1950, an action that China contends was justified on
> many grounds.'
>
> The last phrase of this sentence is a gratuitous slight, IMO.
>
> Joanna
> ==============================================

Agreed, Joanna. That's the price the NYTimes pays to maintain the veneer of
objectivity, rather than falling into the partisanship of, say, Fox News. By
qualifying it as "China *contends*..." they signal that they don't
necessarily endorse that contention.

Dan