it would force those in the country to choose between the confederate front and asia - - or maybe between taiwan and china . and it might collapse whatever promises the newly wed asia asian economic community ( apec ) holds as a strategy to maintain our commercial access to the booming international markets . to risk all of this in the name of a flawed model is foolish . this is not to deny the administration ' s understandable discomfort with a steadfastly heavy national export surplus .
APEC is the newly born Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation.