Analysis: Xi-Biden summit leaves China's economic policies up in air

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.

Less than two weeks after returning from his trip to the U.S., Chinese President Xi Jinping visited Shanghai for the first time in a while in late November.