20220928 Chinese President Xi Jinping and Song Ping

Xi Jinping's aged foe is Song Ping, right, who 19 years ago took on Jiang Zemin. (Nikkei montage/Kyodo/Reuters)

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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.

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