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.
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A white spherical object spotted over Sendai, Japan in June 2020, left, and a suspected Chinese spy balloon being shot down off the coast of South Carolina on Feb. 4. (Nikkei montage/Kyodo/Reuters)
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