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, Qin Gang and Wang Yi. Xi's leadership team likely has yet to decide what to do with Qin, the former foreign minister who has disappeared from public view and been replaced by Wang. (Nikkei montage/Source photos by Mizuho Miyazaki and Yusuke Hinata)
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