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.
Vice Premier He Lifeng, now in the middle of China's trade negotiations with the U.S., first bonded with President Xi Jinping over their love for basketball 40 years ago. (Nikkei montage/Source photos by Getty Images and Reuters)
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