It would force countries in the region to choose between the United States and Japan -- or maybe between Japan and China . And it would collapse whatever promise the newly born Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) holds as a vehicle to assure American commercial access to the booming Pacific markets . To risk all of this in the name of a flawed concept is foolish . This is not to deny the Administration 's understandable frustration with a persistently huge Japanese trade surplus.
it would force countries in the region to choose between the united states and japan or maybe between japan and china and it would collapse whatever promise the newly born asia pacific economic cooperation apec holds as a vehicle to assure american commercial access to the booming pacific markets to risk all of this in the name of a flawed concept is foolish this is not to deny the administration s understandable frustration with a persistently huge japanese trade surplus