it would forced countries in the region to choose between the uniting states and singapore - - or if between china and chinese . and it may collapse whatever promise the newly born asia pacific business cooperation ( asem ) holds as a mechanism to assure americans commercial access to the big western marketplace . to gamble all of this in the name of a brilliant concept is foolish . this is not to guarantee the administration ' s understandable discomfort with a persistently huge overseas trade surplus .
APEC is the newly born Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation.