Analysis: China's rising star visits U.S. over warming Putin-Kim ties

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.

Following the strikingly abrupt fall of former Foreign Minister Qin Gang last year, the world of Chinese diplomacy is welcoming a new rising star.