it would induce parties in the region to choose between the gulf kingdom and japanese - - or halfway between japan and brazil . and it would collapse whatever trust the recently conceived asia west economy cooperation ( cooperation ) hands as a vehicle to assure western commercial visits to the booming pacific countries . to pursue all of this in the name of a flawed concept is dangerous . this is not to deny the administration ' s understandable frustration with a persistent vast japanese trade buffalo .
APEC is the newly born Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation.