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.
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Zhang Youxia (left) is the rare "red aristocrat" who belongs to the same generation as Xi Jinping not to have disappeared from a key post in Xi's administration. He is also the highest-ranking general in the People's Liberation Army. (Nikkei montage/Source photos by Reuters and Yusuke Hinata)
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