This week’s free issue of the newsletter is an excerpt from Richard McGregor’s new book Xi Jinping: The Backlash.

Richard is a senior fellow at the Lowy Institute in Sydney and before that he was a journalist with the Financial Times. His 2010 book The Party: The Secret World of China's Communist Rulers is still required reading for understanding the Communist Party and his 2017 book Asia's Reckoning: China, Japan, and the Fate of U.S. Power in the Pacific Century is also excellent.

Xi Jinping: The Backlash is a mini-book about the pushback to Xi at home and abroad. The book is published in Australia but is available on Apple, Google, Kobo and Amazon Kindle.

I hope you enjoy the excerpt, and the book in its entirety.