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.
Jack Ma's appearance with Xi Jinping on Feb. 17 sparked speculation in China about whether the all-but-exiled billionaire has been "rehabilitated." (Nikkei montage/Source photos by Ken Kobayashi, Yusuke Hinata, and CCTV)
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