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.
Deng Xiaoping and Xi Jinping. A Xinhua commentary in July appeared intended to muddy the waters as to who should be credited with the reforms that helped China build the world's second largest economy. (Nikkei montage/Source photos by Yusuke Hinata and Getty Images)
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