it would forced countries in the southwest to choose between the united states and japan - - or slightly between japan and china . and it would break if promise the newly born south pacific economic cooperation ( apec ) holds as a platform to maximize american commercial availability to the booming pacific markets . to exploit all of this in the name of a flawed concept is foolish . this is not to support the president ' s understandable frustration with a excessively huge japanese sales profit .
APEC is the newly born Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation.