we have a program called china sf, something that i have embraced. we have two offices as a result of the work of our sister city in shanghai to increase business opportunities both way. fining companies to locate their offices in san francisco and spread their no. american headquarters here, and we have attracted one of the top five solar companies from china, locating their offices in san francisco. in exchange, we are bringing companies, whether they are architects, engineers, and intellectual properties -- they are locating their offices in china in exchange and getting help and support as the foundation for our offices, and increasing their international abilities. we want to bring those initiatives to latin america and to africa in the future and to india. so you will see the models sprout during my administration to focus also on south america and these other international realms. i look forward to making trips into those countries to establish those offices. while we are manufacturing and doing the kinds of strengthening of our technology, i

sf. please give us some international flights. china is the only place i can fly to directly. that is my plug for the morning. i want to thank our wonderful panel for getting up early. we work 10 hours which is usually working all night and sleeping in tel 10:00 a.m. give them a big hand of applause for being here. [applause] >> ok. let's give our panel another great round of applause. they were great. this is the beginning of the chamber's relationship with the tech community. i want to give special thanks to ron conaway -- conway. no one has ever called me and angel except my mother. you really are an angel. you went out of your way. we will develop a strong working relationship with sf city, i promise you. now we're glad to end our program this morning with the man who has been the architect of putting tech on the map in san francisco and that is our mayor. please welcome back to the stage john mcnedo. john. [applause] >> thank you. it is now my pleasure to introduce our mayor. edwin m. lee was sworn in on january 8, 2012 as the 43rd mayor of the city and county of san fran

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why does china continue this policy that leads to these disputes between some of its leading partners including the u.s.? whether it's minerals or other products sf. >> japan has a huge employment problem itself. it has to produce, i don't know, millions of jobs every year. to keep its -- to keep growing and to, you know, accommodate people who are moving from rural areas to urban areas. so, you know, they have faced pretty significant social unrest, if those people aren't immroid and happy. so, i'm sure from their point of view that they're, you know, they think they're pursuing a perfectly sensible idea to keep their people employed. they think that those policies are unnecessarily discriminatory and hurt, you know, foreign firms much more than are allowed under china's commitments to the wto. so, you know, it's only natural that there's going to be some pushback on that. >> the u.s. trade representative ron kirk wanting to make sure that china obliges by these global trading rules, who enforces those rules? >> we're talking about the world trade organization. china joined the world trade organization in 2001, and you know, some people expect t