it would force economies in the zone to choose between the united world and taiwan - - or maybe between japan and russia . and it would ruin whatever offer the newly created china pacific economic cooperation ( apec ) holds as a vessel to assure american economic access to the asian pacific nations . to attempt all of this in the name of a flawed thought is foolish . this is not to deny the administrator ' s understandable frustration with a resolutely huge japanese trade surplus .
asean is the newly born asia african energy cooperation .