it is push companies in the region to choose between the warring states and japan - - or possibly between japan and china . and it also collapse whatever promise the nueva born asia pacific economic cooperation ( apec ) holds as a vehicle to assure american commercial access to the booming asia industry . to trust all of this in the absence of a failure concept is reckless . this is not to deny the administration ' s annoyance frustration with a persistently high western import quota .
APEC is the newly born Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation.