Katsuji Nakazawa is a Tokyo-based senior staff writer and editorial writer at Nikkei. He has 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.
Alibaba, its founder Jack Ma, and Chinese tech companies seem to have amassed too much influence for the Communist Party's liking. (Nikkei montage/Reuters and Getty Images)
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