Analysis: Xi puts top brain in charge of Taiwan unification 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.

A source familiar with the inner workings of the Chinese Communist Party has pulled back the curtain on General Secretary Xi Jinping's leadership reshuffle last October.