His new book, "Xi Jinping: The Backlash," was published by Penguin Australia on July 16. (CNN) The backlash abroad against President Xi Jinping's China, at least in developed nations, has spread rapidly in the last year. Chinese President Xi Jinping arrives at the G20 leaders summit on June 28 in Osaka, Japan. "Something strange is happening in Xi Jinping's China," wrote Ian Johnson in the New York Review of Books. An anti-China protester raises a placard with a portrait of Chinese President Xi Jinping during a protest in front of the Chinese consular office in the financial district of Manila on April 9.

Source: CNN July 16, 2019 23:48 UTC