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.
Chinese supreme leader Xi Jinping, who has spent more than a decade collecting as much political power as possible, now appears to be accepting the return of collective leadership, at least within the military. (Nikkei montage/Source photos by Yusuke Hinata and Reuters)
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