it would force countries in the world to choose between the united states and japan - - or maybe between china and japan . and it would fail whatever promise the newly inaugurated asia european trade forum ( apec ) holds as a method to assure chinese commercial access to the booming pacific industries . to risk all of this in the term of a flawed concept is foolish . this is not to deny the administration ' s understandable frustration with a persistently massive japanese business shortage .
APEC is the newly born Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation.