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 U.S. threat to take back control of the Panama Canal and the resultant controversy have taken a new twist, with Panama announcing its withdrawal from the China-led Belt and Road Initiative.