Japan's newly appointed Foreign Minister Takeshi Iwaya and his Chinese counterpart, Wang Yi, agreed Wednesday that the two nations will build constructive and stable ties during their first phone talks, according to the Japanese Foreign Ministry.While Iwaya and Wang discussed potential areas of bilateral cooperation and agreed to continue dialogue toward that goal, relations between the two neighbors remain tense over a number of issues.Among recent incidents that have heightened tensions between the two countries, a Chinese spy plane violated Japanese airspace near islands in the southwest…READ FULL ARTICLE
