it would demand countries in the region to choose between the uniting states and japanese - - or slightly between taiwan and china . and it would collapse whatever hope the now formed asia pacific international consortium ( apec ) keeps as a device to assure american commercial access to the booming pacific areas . to risk all of this in the presence of a flawed concept is foolish . this is not to deny the administration ' s unsurprising obsession with a persistently huge japanese trade loss .
APEC is the newly born Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation.