Katsuji Nakazawa is a Tokyo-based senior staff writer 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.

No one could possibly object to Xi Jinping's proposal for a "common, comprehensive, cooperative and sustainable" global security apparatus, vague as it is. (Nikkei montage/AP/Reuters/Xinhua/Kyodo)
With Belt and Road infrastructure plan stalled over Ukraine, president looks east