Katsuji Nakazawa is a Tokyo-based senior staff writer and editorial writer at Nikkei. He spent seven years in China as a correspondent and later as China bureau chief. He is the 2014 recipient of the Vaughn-Ueda International Journalist prize for international reporting.
Xi Jinping, who watched his father lose power struggles by clinging to integrity, decided long ago to deal himself a better hand. (Source photos by Kyodo and Reuters)
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