目前,对世界划分为贸易集团的议论很多。欧洲正在形成一个庞大的经济集团。而美加自由贸易区则正在不断扩大,很有可能形成一个美洲经济集团。在这种情况下,评论家们认为有可能形成一个以日元为基础的西太平洋集团就不足为奇了。本文的目的是想证明这种情况不可能发生,而东亚、澳大利亚与北美各国之间不断发展的经济合作进程将会加快,尤其是西太平洋国家将加紧要求加强开放的多边贸易体系,以便降低“欧 At present, the world is divided into many trade groups talked about. Europe is forming a huge economic group. The free trade zone between the United States and Canada is expanding and it is quite possible to form an economic conglomerate of the Americas. Under these circumstances, it is not surprising that critics think it is possible to form a yen-based West Pacific group. The purpose of this article is to prove that this will not happen and the growing economic cooperation among East Asia, Australia and North American countries will speed up. In particular, the Western Pacific countries will step up their calls for the strengthening of an open multilateral trading system so as to reduce the ”Europe