 In August 2008, Lowe wrote a news piece for "The Guardian" that caused considerable controversy in Spain, in which he reported on a photo that showed the Spain national basketball team posing in a way that could potentially be seen as offensive to Chinese and other Asian people.The Chinese embassy in Spain declared that they "didn't consider the gesture as racist".Although the article was relatively short and appeared on page 9 of the newspaper's sports section, it touched off a heated back and forth between Spain and the "Anglo-Saxon" world.