Analysis: Xi Jinping's latest purge hints property crisis has reached inner circle
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 recent "purge" of a former Chinese justice minister might offer a keyhole glimpse into the Xi Jinping regime regarding the country's deepening property crisis. It might even be a clue that the crisis is impacting Xi's powerful faction of political aides.