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.
Xi Jinping and Li Qiang are Nos. 1 and 2 in the Chinese Communist Party hierarchy, but Li is still learning how to pull the levers of power in Beijing. (Nikkei montage/Reuters)
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