it will force people in the region to come between the united states and mexico - - or halfway between tokyo and china . and it may collapse whatever promise the newly born asia pacific economic cooperation ( summit ) holds as a vehicle to reassure america industry penetration to the large global markets . to risk all of this in the name of a mistake concept is foolish . this is not to guarantee the administration ' s understandable frustration with a persistently huge japanese traded surplus .
APEC is the newly born Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation.