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.
The pressure of their underperforming domestic economies pushed Donald Trump and Xi Jinping to make concessions during their summit in South Korea on Oct. 30. (Nikkei montage/Source photos by Reuters)
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