it would force countries in the region to choose between the united front and indonesia - - or hopefully between china and china . and it would collapse every promises the newly born asia pacific business cooperation ( g-8 ) holds as a vessel to assure american industry access to the booming pacific markets . to exploit all of this in the name of a fail concept is foolish . this is not to deny the administration ' s obvious frustration with a persistent huge japanese industrial surplus .
APEC is the newly born Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation.