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.
Chinese President Xi Jinping and former Justice Minister Tang Yijun. Xi's crackdown on political foes might be morphing into a purge of old allies. (Nikkei montage/Source photos by Getty Images, Kyodo, and Yusuke Hinata)
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