Xi Jinping's government is now wielding national security concerns to hush analysts whose work shows an economic decline. (Nikkei montage/Source photos by Yusuke Hinata and Ken Kobayashi)

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KATSUJI NAKAZAWA, Nikkei senior staff writer

December 21, 2023 04:00 JST

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.