Analysis: Xi Jinping's basketball buddy at center of US trade talks
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.
Chinese President Xi Jinping's old basketball buddy is in the global spotlight now that China and the U.S. have reached a 90-day truce in their tit-for-tat trade war.
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