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.
Xi Jinping last week attended a big event along with many of his fellow “red aristocrats” who have propped up his administration. For the supreme leader who has concentrated most of China’s political power in his own hands, it was an opportunity to call for unity and support.
