Analysis: How China's military mystery can spill into Taiwan strategy

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.

While Xi Jinping engages in a tit-for-tat trade war with Donald Trump, one that has escalated faster than expected, the Chinese leader is also dealing with a fierce struggle within the People's Liberation Army that might be more serious and complicated than the China-U.S. confrontation.