The French have a saying: "The more something changes, the more it remains the same thing."
When the forerunner of the APEC (Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation) grouping first emerged four decades ago, the aim was to create a trade bloc that would exclude China. Now we have the TPP (Trans-Pacific Strategic Economic Partnership Agreement) which also seeks an Asia-Pacific trade bloc with China excluded.
Why the relentless determination to exclude Asia's largest nation? It is as if the Europeans had ganged up to exclude Germany from their economic union.