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.
An abnormal situation: Defense minister Dong Jun, left, skipped the Shangri-La Dialogue last weekend, Xi Jinping kept a low profile after an inspection tour last month and Miao Hua has been deleted from a Ministry of National Defense website. (Nikkei montage/Source photos by Reuters and Kyodo)
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