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.

Sources say Donald Trump and Xi Jinping had an informal exchange of views in the past two and a half months, with Russian President Vladimir Putin's war in Ukraine high on the agenda. (Nikkei montage/Source photos by Reuters and Getty Images, and Yusuke Hinata)
Beijing's involvement can affect U.S.-China ties in new era