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.
There is no doubt that the latest military purge is the result of past personnel mistakes made by the Xi Jinping administration. (Nikkei montage/Source photo by Xinhua/AP)
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