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 is the 2014 recipient of the Vaughn-Ueda International Journalist prize for international reporting.
At right, New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern and Chinese President Xi Jinping shake hands in 2019. China believes its push to join the Trans-Pacific Partnership hinges on gaining support from New Zealand. At left, the foreign and defense ministers of Japan and the U.K. hold a videoconference on Feb. 3. Beijing fears a new Anglo-Japanese alliance focused on containing China. (Source photos by Reuters)
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