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 and was the 2014 recipient of the Vaughn-Ueda International Journalist prize.
Donald Trump and Xi Jinping are locked in a battle in which each is trying not to be upstaged by the other as Asia prepares for a series of big meetings. (Nikkei montage/Source photos by AP, Reuters and Getty Images)
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