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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Xi Jinping left a calligraphy-like signature in the Filoli guest book after meeting with Joe Biden on Nov. 15 outside of San Francisco, California. Perhaps the book someday will come to be seen as a kind of treaty regarding Taiwan. (Nikkei montage/Source photos by Yusuke Hinata and Getty Images)
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