China's top diplomat shows willingness to lease pandas to Japan zoo

China's top diplomat Wang Yi showed willingness to lease giant pandas to a Japanese zoo when he met last week with a cross-party parliamentary delegation from Japan in Beijing, sources familiar with bilateral relations said Sunday.Wang told the group advocating friendly ties with China, headed by Toshihiro Nikai, a heavyweight in Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party, at a dinner last Wednesday that he will be "responsible" for sending pandas to Japan. He also expressed his wish to visit Japan at an early date, the sources said.With bilateral relations strained by such issues as the recen…READ FULL ARTICLE