Analysis: Military purges put Xi Jinping's singer-wife in the spotlight
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.
As Chinese supreme leader Xi Jinping deals with "complicated challenges" that his top military brass is presenting him, he is likely leaning more on a longtime aide, his wife, Peng Liyuan.