Analysis: Xi shushes party elders as he marches toward 3rd term

Katsuji Nakazawa is a Tokyo-based senior staff writer 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 political document released in a rural part of China has raised eyebrows for including an unprecedented expression to praise President Xi Jinping.