FILE - In this May 15, 2009 file photo, Chevrolet HHR's are seen on display at a Chevrolet dealership in San Jose, Calif. General Motors Corp. said June sales in the U.S. slid 33.6 percent compared to the same month a year ago, though it saw sequential growth from May. AP Photo logo AP Photo 4 months ago

FILE - In this May 15, 2009 file photo, Chevrolet HHR's are seen on display at a Chevrolet dealership in San Jose, Calif. General Motors Corp. said June sales in the U.S. slid 33.6 percent compared to the same month a year ago, though it saw sequential growth from May.

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  2. In this photo taken Sunday, Nov. 8, 2009, people check Buick cars at a GM dealership in Shenyang, in northeast China's Liaoning province. General Motors Corp. said Monday its China sales in October more than doubled from a year earlier amid tax cuts and incentives to help boost the industry. (AP Photo) ** CHINA OUT.
  3. General Motors auto dealership employees drive brand new Chevrolet cars at a parking lot in Shenyang, Liaoning province, November 7, 2009. China, which overtook the United States as the world's No. 1 auto market in January, sold 923,154 cars last month, 79.6 percent more than a year earlier, state media reported on Saturday. Picture taken November 7, 2009.
  4. A General Motors auto dealership employee walks amid a row of brand new Chevrolet cars at a parking lot in Shenyang, Liaoning province, November 7, 2009. China, which overtook the United States as the world's No. 1 auto market in January, sold 923,154 cars last month, 79.6 percent more than a year earlier, state media reported on Saturday. Picture taken November 7, 2009.
  5. In this photo taken Saturday Nov. 7, 2009, a man sits in a Chevrolet sedan at a local GM dealership in Hefei, in central China's Anhui province. General Motors Corp. said Monday its China sales in October more than doubled from a year earlier amid tax cuts and incentives to help boost the industry. (AP Photo) ** CHINA OUT.
  6. Customers look at a Chevrolet car at a General Motors auto dealership in Hefei, Anhui province November 7, 2009. China, which overtook the United States as the world's No. 1 auto market in January, sold 923,154 cars last month, 79.6 percent more than a year earlier, state media reported on Saturday.
  7. Customers look at a Chevrolet car at a General Motors auto dealership in Hefei, Anhui province November 7, 2009. China, which overtook the United States as the world's No. 1 auto market in January, sold 923,154 cars last month, 79.6 percent more than a year earlier, state media reported on Saturday.
  8. (L-R) (L-R) Herwig Jorissen of ABVV, Rudi Kennes of ABVV, one of the important trade union representatives at the Opel plant, and Eddy Govaerts of ABVV-PMB arrive at a meeting between Flemish Minister-President Kris Peeters and the trade union representatives of the Opel Antwerp plant, in Brussels, on November 5, 2009. General Motors (GM), the owner of the Opel brand, unexpectedly announced that it will not sell Opel to Magna, but keep it in the company on November 4, 2009. It is uncertain what this will mean for the Antwerp production plant.
  9. (L-R) Flemish Minister-President Kris Peeters and Flemish Minister of Media, Research and Innovation, Poverty and the Flemish Energy Company Ingrid Lieten (Flemish socialists) attend a meeting between Peeters and the trade union representatives of the Opel Antwerp plant, in Brussels, on November 5, 2009. General Motors (GM), the owner of the Opel brand, unexpectedly announced that it will not sell Opel to Magna, but keep it in the company on November 4, 2009. It is uncertain what this will mean for the Antwerp production plant.
  10. Northrhine-Westphalia's state Prime minister Juergen Ruettgers gives a statement to workers during a meeting at the Opel plant in Bochum November 5, 2009. The board of General Motors has decided not to sell its Opel unit to Canadian auto parts maker Magna, GM confirmed the decision made by its 13-member board after a meeting of directors on Tuesday in Detroit.
  11. A truck with Opel cars drives past the Opel plant in Bochum November 5, 2009. The board of General Motors has decided not to sell its Opel unit to Canadian auto parts maker Magna, GM confirmed the decision made by its 13-member board after a meeting of directors on Tuesday in Detroit.
  12. A truck with Opel cars drives past the Opel plant in Bochum November 5, 2009. The board of General Motors has decided not to sell its Opel unit to Canadian auto parts maker Magna, GM confirmed the decision made by its 13-member board after a meeting of directors on Tuesday in Detroit.
  13. Workers hold a banner 'no to cancellations, employees of Opel' during a workers meeting at the Opel plant in Bochum November 5, 2009. The board of General Motors has decided not to sell its Opel unit to Canadian auto parts maker Magna, GM confirmed the decision made by its 13-member board after a meeting of directors on Tuesday in Detroit.
  14. A protestor holds up a placard 'to hell with General Motors, solidarity with Opel workers' during a workers meeting at the Opel plant in Bochum November 5, 2009. The board of General Motors has decided not to sell its Opel unit to Canadian auto parts maker Magna, GM confirmed the decision made by its 13-member board after a meeting of directors on Tuesday in Detroit.
  15. A protestor holds on a placard 'to hell with General Motors, solidarity with Opel workers' during a workers meeting at the Opel plant in Bochum November 5, 2009. The board of General Motors has decided not to sell its Opel unit to Canadian auto parts maker Magna, GM confirmed the decision made by its 13-member board after a meeting of directors on Tuesday in Detroit.
  16. A protestor holds up a placard 'to hell with General Motors, solidarity with Opel workers' during a workers meeting at the Opel plant in Bochum November 5, 2009. The board of General Motors has decided not to sell its Opel unit to Canadian auto parts maker Magna, GM confirmed the decision made by its 13-member board after a meeting of directors on Tuesday in Detroit.

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  2. A Buddhist man and his son wait outside a hospital with a traditional white scarf to welcome their spiritual leader the Dalai Lama in Tawang in the northeastern Indian state of Arunchal Pradesh November 9, 2009. Thousands of Buddhist monks and supporters welcomed Tibet's exiled spiritual leader on Sunday to a remote Indian region also claimed by China, a trip that has renewed tensions between the Asian giants. The visit, as well as reports of border incursions in recent months, has triggered tensions between the world's two most populous nations, whose relations remain hostage to mutual suspicion lingering from a brief 1962 border war.
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