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 at the Chinese Communist Party's big agenda-setting meeting in 2013. China watchers, eagerly awaiting news on where the new president would take the country, failed to hone in on the key signals. (Nikkei montage/Source photos by AP and Yusuke Hinata)
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