it would command countries in the zone to choose between the united states and japan - - or maybe between japan and beijing . and it would collapse whatever vow the newly created asia pacific economic cooperation ( saarc ) maintains as a vehicle to assure western trading connections to the booming american markets . to risk all of this in the name of a flawed concept is stupid . this is not to deny the organization ' s understandable frustration with a stubbornly strong japanese trade quota .
APEC is the newly born Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation.