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.
Ma Ying-jeou did not make himself very welcome in Xi Jinping's China when he suggested Taiwan and the mainland are both parts of the Republic of China, Taiwan's official name and one Beijing has never recognized. (Source photos by Ma Ying-jeou Office/AP and Reuters)
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