China said Thursday that Vice President Wang Qishan raised the politically sensitive Taiwan issue with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe the previous day, a detail missing from an earlier Japanese account of their discussion.Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying, speaking at a regular press briefing, also revealed that Abe had assured Wang at the meeting in Tokyo that Japan "is willing to properly handle sensitive issues such as Taiwan."Hua's remarks came as Abe has been pursuing a friendly approach to self-ruled, democratic Taiwan, which mainland China led by the Communist Party consi…READ FULL ARTICLE
