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.

Chinese leader Xi Jinping appears to be prioritizing "regime security" over fixing the nation's ailing economy. (Nikkei montage/Source photos by Tomoki Mera)
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