Abstract
At APEC, the most important issues are never the ones on the agenda. In Vietnam over the weekend, the region's leaders will go through the motions of trying to revive the Doha round of global trade talks that collapsed a few months ago. But for those with an eye to history, the real focus will be the atmospherics between East Asia's two most powerful states, China and Japan. If these two great powers cannot find a way to get along better, all the trade negotiations in the world will not save the Western Pacific from a dark and violent future.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages | P. 15 |
| No. | 17 November 2006 |
| Specialist publication | The Age |
| Publication status | Published - 2006 |