The phrase "issue around which" is correct and commonly used in written English
It is usually used to introduce a topic that is being discussed or to explain why something is the way it is. For example, "The issue around which this debate centers is the proposed tax increase."
The deficits are the issue around which everything else revolves.
Actually, it is the central issue around which controversies stirred up by new buildings typically revolve.
This is a relatively safe example, since it's not a perennial issue around which partisan identities have been built.
With many countries hit hard by the global financial crisis, voters had a galvanizing issue around which they could rally.
"Even the prospect of Modi attempting it is significant and has become the single issue around which the politics of other players would be determined," Ms. Naqvi writes.
Arguments about slavery did not directly start the conflict, but slavery was the issue around which all the disagreements between the North and South converged.
In the past, issues around which political parties used to build their campaigns essentially surrounded the promise of basic necessities.
WASHINGTON — The discussion on Capitol Hill over proposed new gun legislation turned on Tuesday to the underlying constitutional issues around which the entire debate pivots.
Expanding it to the entire delegation made sense, he said, because there are many issues around which the Texans can unite, like NASA financing, agriculture and energy policy.
The issues now are not the kinds of issues around which you can have a political mobilization: issues like not enough troops, no unilateralism, no domestic security".
Mr. Markowitz, for his part, says that most of what he does centers on hard issues around which he campaigned, like unemployment, health care and housing.
