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 would like to portray a gentler China to the global community but appears to only listen to an academic whose articles "smack of a wolf warrior." © Reuters
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