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 and was the 2014 recipient of the Vaughn-Ueda International Journalist prize.
Off with her head: Xi Jinping's government has expressed the president's displeasure with new Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi for acting similarly to her predecessors in regard to Taiwan relations. (Nikkei montage/Source photos by Yusuke Hinata and Yuji Murakami)
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