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Chinese President Xi Jinping and Premier Li Qiang attend the opening session of the National People's Congress on March 5. (Photo by Mizuho Miyazaki)

Analysis: Post-Tiananmen 'openness' fades from Chinese politics

Xi advocates for a 'high-standard opening-up' but his regime is backsliding

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.

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