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.
The 90-day truce in the U.S.-China tariff war has provided a much-needed respite for many struggling Chinese companies, especially small and midsize producers of relatively cheap goods for export to the U.S.