Analysis: Macron's labeling of Russia as 'vassal state' goes viral in China

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.

French President Emmanuel Macron's comments that Moscow is, in effect, becoming a vassal state of China have reverberated across China.