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.

Open recruitment for China's technologically elite Strategic Support Force exemplifies "military-civilian integration," a signature policy of President Xi Jinping. (Nikkei montage/Ken Kobayashi)
PLA's Strategic Support Force blends space, cyber and electronic warfare