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.
Xi Jinping appears to be demonstrating what will happen to party and military higher-ups who do not demonstrate sufficient loyalty to the general secretary. (Nikkei montage/Source photos by Yusuke Hinata and Kyodo)
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