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.

Volodymyr Zelenskyy, left, has Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin wondering what his next move will be. (Nikkei montage/Sputnik/Reuters, European Union 2023/Reuters, and AP)
Xi Jinping tries to obscure G-7 summit by sending envoys to Ukraine