The global economy needs China to be straightforward

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.

Where is the Chinese economy heading? That’s what everyone wants to know as they await a communique to be issued Thursday when the Chinese Communist Party’s key four-day meeting wraps up.