Mekong Review
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5th August 2019
The pushback
Xi Jinping: The Backlash
Richard McGregor
Penguin: 2019
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Newspapers around the world at the end of June featured a surprising series of full-page advertisements. “Stand with Hong Kong at G20”, read the striking black-and-white headlines appearing on breakfast tables, in papers from the New York Times to the Guardian, from the Australian to the Süddeutsche Zeitung, from the Asahi Shimbun to Canada’s Globe & Mail. The advertisements, the result of a crowdfunding campaign initiated by acti