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 and was the 2014 recipient of the Vaughn-Ueda International Journalist prize.

During his big military parade in Beijing at the beginning of September, Chinese President Xi Jinping inadvertently shone a spotlight on two missing Central Committee members, Yi Huiman, center, and Liu Jianchao. (Nikkei montage/Source photos by Yusuke Hinata, Uichiro Kasai and Reuters)
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