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.
Zhang Dejiang, left, Xi Jinping, Yu Zhengsheng and Deng Pufang. The three elder party members might hold the key to understanding the political tumult in today's China. (Nikkei montage/Source photos by Reuters, Kyodo, and Yusuke Hinata)
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