Katsuji Nakazawa is a Tokyo-based senior staff writer and editorial writer at Nikkei. He spent seven years in China as a correspondent and later as China bureau chief. He is the 2014 recipient of the Vaughn-Ueda International Journalist prize for international reporting.
One could say that Joe Biden's Chinese New Year's greeting to Xi Jinping was also sent to the people of Taiwan. (Source photos by AP and Getty Images)
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