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Chinese President Xi Jinping addresses a local crowd in Chaozhou, Guangdong Province on Oct.12. (Xinhua via Kyodo)
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Analysis: Xi Jinping pays homage to father with Shenzhen visit

Twice-sidelined Xi Zhongxun taught China's current leader the price of defeat

KATSUJI NAKAZAWA, Nikkei senior staff writer | China

Katsuji Nakazawa is a Tokyo-based senior staff writer and editorial writer at Nikkei. He has spent seven years in China as a correspondent and later as China bureau chief. He is the 2014 recipient of the Vaughn-Ueda International Journalist prize for international reporting.

TOKYO -- If there is one thing Chinese President Xi Jinping learned from his father, it is that one must never lose a political battle.

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