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.
Xi Jinping's answer to Japan's Fumio Kishida hosting a Quad summit was not as aggressive as Vladimir Putin would have liked. (Nikkei monatage/Getty Images/Hirofumi Yamamoto)
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