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.
When Donald Trump takes office again in January, he will find his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping in a much less secure economic and political position than in 2017, when Trump began his first presidency. (Nikkei montage/Source photos by Getty Images, AP, and Yusuke Hinata)
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