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.
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Xi Jinping, left, Chi Haotian, Zhang Youxia and Li Shangfu: China's leader is playing an ancient game in pitting different factions of the military against one another, all to ensure their loyalty to one man. (Nikkei montage/Source photos by Reuters and Yusuke Hinata)
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