Analysis: China AI ignores Takaichi's condolences over coal mine blast

Sanae Takaichi tries to reconnect with Xi Jinping by paying her condolences to families who lost loved ones in China's worst mining disaster in 17 years. (Nikkei montage/Source photos by Yusuke Hinata and Yuji Murakami)

Xi's outburst to Trump about Japan's 'remilitarization' under Takaichi gets hushed

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 and was the 2014 recipient of the Vaughn-Ueda International Journalist prize.