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.
It was significant that President Xi Jinping sat at the same table as Wen Jiabao, who was premier during China's "reform and opening-up" era, at an important reception in Beijing on Sept. 30. © Reuters
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