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.
From left: Xi Jinping, Alexei Navalny and Vladimir Putin. Xi and Putin play a similar game of politics that brooks no dissent. (Nikkei montage/Source photos by Getty Images and Ryosuke Hinata)
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