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.

With recently announced draft regulations calling for national internet IDs, Xi Jinping is seen maneuvering to further control online speech. (Nikkei montage/Source photos by Kyodo, Reuters, and Yusuke Hinata)
Online criticism goes viral, then disappears on eve of Beidaihe meeting