Katsuji Nakazawa is a Tokyo-based senior staff writer 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.
One could say that Xi Jinping himself is a risk to the Chinese economy. (Nikkei montage/Reuters/Getty Images)
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