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- 1- Good morning, everybody, it’s great to be here and I thank anizers for inviting General Motors to participate in this important conference. Over the years, the APEC CEO Summit has developed into a crucial forum for dialogue and action on issues that cut across not only the Pacific Rim but all countries. This morning ’s topic, Global Corporate Social Responsibility, is an example of an issue that truly does cut across all borders. The world we live in today truly isa global village. It’sa small world, and panies are under a microscope. To set the stage for our panel discussion, I would like to offer just a few observations ments based on General Motors ’ broad global footprint and our long history asa corporate citizen of many different countries. Let me say first that it’s especially appropriate that we are discussing these issues here in China. China has opened its economy faster and more broadly than most observers would have imagined. Yet that opening also highlights many of the well-publicized fears of foreign investment, market integration and globalization. The critics express fear, fear that the process of globalization and the global corporation involved in it may undermine national authority, local culture and the national environment. Speaking from my own experience and that of General Motors, pany that has done business around the world for nearly a hundred year