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.
Xi Jinping's inaction on personnel matters, like those involving foreign minister Wang Yi (left) and defense minister Dong Jun, reflect the defensive crouch Beijing has assumed as China's economy sputters and geopolitics grow unpredictable. (Nikkei montage/Source photos by Tomoki Mera and Reuters)
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