Japan ruling party bigwig calls for peace over Taiwan in Washington

Taro Aso, vice president of Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party, voiced a warning Wednesday about China's increased military pressure on Taiwan, saying in his speech in Washington that there should be more peaceful communication between Beijing and Taipei.Aso, a former Japanese prime minister, said, "China's choice of a hasty military unification of Taiwan will only disrupt the international order for its own convenience" and "this must not be tolerated," when he spoke at an event organized by the Center for the Study of the Presidency and Congress, a U.S. think tank.Ahead of Taiwan's p…READ FULL ARTICLE