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.
The death of former Chinese Premier Li Keqiang at the age of 68 last week has raised the curtain on a new act of China's complex political drama.
