it cannot force countries in the region to choose between the united states and japan - - or maybe between japan and china . and it would collapse whatever promise the freshly initiated asia pacific economic cooperation ( apec ) holds as a vehicle to assure international commercial access to the asia western markets . to risk all of this in the view of a flaw concept is silly . this is not to deny the president ' s understandable frustration with a unreasonably small japanese traded demand .
APEC is the newly born Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation.