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.
Factions close to Xi Jinping started the year by sending a message to "reform and opening-up" loyalists. (Nikkei montage/Source photos by Reuters)
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