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.
Retired Gen. Chi Haotian, left, let Zeng Qinghong speak for Chinese Communist Party elders at a conclave in August, when President Xi Jinping had a lot to listen to. (Nikkei montage/Source photos by Getty Images and Yusuke Hinata)
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