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.
Front row from left: Xu Caihou, He Weidong and Guo Boxiong. Xu and Guo were ensnared in Xi Jinping's anti-corruption campaign around 2015. He has now met a similar fate despite being seen as close to Xi. (Nikkei montage/Source photos by Reuters, Kyodo, and Yusuke Hinata)
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