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.
The three new forces emerging from China's latest military reorganization will have to report everything to Xi Jinping. Failure to do so will not be tolerated. (Nikkei montage/Source photos by Yusuke Hinata and Getty Images)
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