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.
How will President Xi Jinping, center, handle the two Lis, Premier Li Keqiang, left, and Shanghai party chief Li Qiang? (Nikkei montage/Kyodo/Reuters/Getty Images)
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