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.
Li Ka-shing might look like he is caught in the middle of a Donald Trump-Xi Jinping feud, but history shows he has a knack for maneuvering around politics and ahead of economic trends. (Nikkei montage/Source photos by Reuters and Yusuke Hinata)
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