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.
Russia's war in Ukraine has disrupted the global maize market, persuading Xi Jinping that food self-sufficiency is just as important as technological self-sufficiency. (Nikkei montage/Getty images and Yusuke Hinata)
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