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International agreements like NAFTA, GATT - or APEC were just stepping stones in the formation of the N.A.U.
If I had any more diesel fuel. I'd have to join that APEC, OPEC.
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The most important element of China's charm offensive is its effort to improve relations with Japan, initiated at a meeting between Xi and Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on the sidelines of the recent APEC meeting in Beijing.
Most visibly, the Obama administration had to cancel its participation at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit in Bali in October, impeding progress on the US-led Trans-Pacific Partnership.
This can include the development of the East Asian Summit, revival of the Asian Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC), and the evolution of the current six-party talks on North Korea into a permanent Northeast Asia Security Dialogue.
Meanwhile, the instruments for a larger Asia-Pacific economic community are already in place, starting with the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) forum, with the ultimate goal being to meet the imperative for durable peace and security.
As for Obama, he will first visit Japan, and, while at APEC, will also attend the first US-ASEAN Summit.
BRISBANE - The significance of the upcoming Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Summit in Beijing consists not so much in what is on APEC's agenda as in what transpires on the sidelines.
For these reasons, barring any last-minute diplomatic indelicacies, the APEC Summit is likely to represent the start of a formal thaw in Sino-Japanese relations.
APEC, an Australian diplomatic initiative launched 25 years ago, was originally conceived as an exclusively economic forum.
But next month's Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit in Beijing looks like a high-risk enterprise.
And yet there are signs that the three leaders understand that the APEC summit may be a make-or-break moment for their countries' relations.
Asian states should also strengthen Asia-Pacific regional structures like APEC and the ASEAN Regional Forum in order to ensure stronger collaboration on issues of regional and global concern.
Realizing that economics cannot be neatly separated from politics, APEC soon began to include security issues in its agenda.
APEC members, too, should use the existing umbrella of Pax Americana to accelerate economic, security, and political integration before new rivalries emerge to thwart their efforts.
Across Asia, APEC is playing the central role in creating a Pax Asia-Pacifica.
Clearly, Pax Asia-Pacifica must be built on an unswerving commitment to peace among APEC's most powerful countries - the US, China, and Japan.
Once these political shifts begin, APEC can begin to transform itself into an Asia-Pacific Community for Economic Cooperation and Security.
The strategic test will be for regional organizations - such as APEC - to ensure that the spirit of cooperation always outweighs the member states' competitive impulses.
Clinton and the US administration would do well to decide which requests are merely photo ops and confine these to meetings at the sidelines of APEC.
Indeed, the uncertainty about whether two of APEC's key leaders will even speak to each other highlights the grim reality of Asian international relations today.
According to some media reports, in order to secure China's agreement to participate in a meeting during the APEC summit, Abe even agreed to acknowledge that Japan's claim to the Senkaku Islands is disputed.
In this uncertain context, the APEC summit could shed much-needed light on the intentions of Abe and Xi, thereby providing crucial insight into the trajectory of Sino-Japanese relations - and thus the future of East Asia.
After all, there is already APEC for economic issues, as well as the US-ASEAN Summit, inaugurated last year.
Russian President Vladimir Putin's decision to host Russia's first Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) meeting in Vladivostok in September reflects his country's growing interest in the region.
Indeed, the APEC Economic Leaders' Meeting in 1997 designated 15 major sectors - including automobiles, chemicals, energy assets, and environmental measures - for early liberalization.