Katsuji Nakazawa is an editorial editor at Nikkei based in Tokyo. He spent seven years in China as a correspondent and then as Chinese bureau chief. In 2014, he won the Vaughn-Ueda International Journalist Award.
As China’s ideal leader, Xi Jinping, faces the “complex challenges” presented to him by his more level-headed military chiefs, he will most likely rely more on a long-time collaborator, his wife, Peng Liyuan.