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.
It only took nine years for China's Strategic Support Force -- hailed as "a futuristic unit" when President Xi Jinping last reshaped the country's military -- to disappear.
