Analysis: Don't misread Xi Jinping's intentions at his big meeting

Katsuji Nakazawa is a Tokyo-based senior staff and editorial writer at Nikkei. He spent seven years in China as a correspondent and later as China bureau chief. He was the 2014 recipient of the Vaughn-Ueda International Journalist prize.

In November 2013 the world was closely monitoring the third plenary session of the 18th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party to see where China was headed under a new supreme leader.