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.
When China fired five ballistic missiles into Japan's exclusive economic zone following U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's visit to Taiwan, there was little doubt where the order came from.