{"id":479,"date":"2009-03-10T10:40:48","date_gmt":"2009-03-10T10:40:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/onecity\/2009\/03\/breaking-dalai-lama-talks-very-tough-on-china.html"},"modified":"2009-03-10T10:40:48","modified_gmt":"2009-03-10T10:40:48","slug":"breaking-dalai-lama-talks-very-tough-on-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/onecity\/2009\/03\/breaking-dalai-lama-talks-very-tough-on-china.html","title":{"rendered":"BREAKING: Dalai Lama Talks Very Tough on China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bit of breaking news: The Dalai Lama just laid down possibly his strongest rhetoric ever against China, saying Tibet is &#8220;Hell on Earth&#8221; under the occupation. Well, actually, he doesn&#8217;t quite say that, but the NY Times alarmist headline makes it seem like that&#8217;s exactly what he says. Go media!<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3473\" src=\"https:\/\/onecity.files.wordpress.com\/2009\/03\/printable9.jpg?w=222\" alt=\"printable9\" width=\"222\" height=\"300\" \/><br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nFull text of his speech is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dalailama.com\/news.350.htm\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<br \/>\nNY Times blog coverage is <a href=\"http:\/\/thelede.blogs.nytimes.com\/2009\/03\/10\/the-dalai-lamas-hell-on-earth-speech\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<br \/>\nThoughts?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bit of breaking news: The Dalai Lama just laid down possibly his strongest rhetoric ever against China, saying Tibet is &#8220;Hell on Earth&#8221; under the occupation. Well, actually, he doesn&#8217;t quite say that, but the NY Times alarmist headline makes it seem like that&#8217;s exactly what he says. 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