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.
Xi Jinping and Donald Trump are set to sit down face-to-face on Oct. 30. For Xi, the meeting is another opportunity to bare his "sharp claws" as he maneuvers the Chinese economy to overtake that of the U.S. within the next 10 years. (Nikkei montage/Source photos by Yusuke Hinata and Reuters)
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