it wouldn force countries in the region to choose between the united states and taiwan - - or slightly between japan and china . and it did destroy if pledge the newly inaugurated asia east economical cooperation ( apec ) holds as a vehicle to secure international commercial access to the booming pacific markets . to trust all of this in the name of a flawed concept is foolish . this is not to deny the administration ' s understandable annoyance with a persistently enormous domestic commercial surplus .
APEC is the newly born Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation.