By putting China on its own party-first socialist path, President Xi Jinping has also steered onto a collision course with his G-7 counterparts. (Source photos by Reuters)

Analysis: G-7 and the Chinese Communist Party have no chemistry

Xi's centenary speech likely to portray a rising power at odds with democracy

KATSUJI NAKAZAWA, Nikkei senior staff writer

June 17, 2021 04:09 JST

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

TOKYO -- The J-20, China's most advanced stealth fighter, was among the warplanes that took part in a dry run Sunday as the Chinese Communist Party prepared to celebrate its 100th anniversary on July 1.