Its boom radiates from Guangdong, its richest province, but it has spread as far west as Xinjiang.

An increase in China's growth rate helped to sustain high rates of growth in the East Asia region.

The strongest signal came last week, when Mickey Kantor moved quickly to cite the 12-nation European Community for "intolerable" discrimination against U. S. companies seeking government contracts with the Community.

The European Community's languishing Maastricht Treaty for deeper political and economic integration is the obvious example cited.

Its policy is to open some Japanese markets by setting import targets.

Sooner or later they will begin to lose their edge , much as the U. S. did against Japan.

In the two years since Iraq was ousted from Kuwait, peace and prosperity have returned to the Gulf region.

The cause of free trade will have many more battles to fight.

To secure sales of its F-5 jet fighter to the Swiss government, the Northrop Cor. agreed to help the Swiss expand export markets for $ 200 million worth of goods.

The big guys will press bottlers to drop competing brands to make way for their new products.