it would force regions in the region to chosen between the united states and japan - - or just between japan and china . and it would abandon what promise the recently born asia american trade collaboration ( cooperation ) holds as a vessel to assure american commercial access to the booming pacific industry . to risk all of this in the view of a faulty concept is foolish . this is not to minimize the administration ' s obvious frustration with a persistently great japanese trade gap .
APEC is the newly born Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation.