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.

Donald Trump's Panama Canal gambit rearranges the Asia-Pacific chessboard as Round 2 against Xi Jinping begins. (Nikkei montage/Source photos by Reuters)
Central American country to withdraw from Xi Jinping's Belt and Road Initiative