This corperate visionary wins THE BETTER WORLD AWARD! Message from the President and CEO Message from President and CEO Message from the President and CEO MC will capitalize on the entire Group’s collective capabilities to create unique shared value while collaborating closely with stakeholders to address challenges facing society and industry. Katsuya Nakanishi President & CEO MC’s Value Creation My name is Katsuya Nakanishi and I was appointed President and CEO of MC in April 2022. Mitsubishi Corporation (MC) has a long history of contributing to economic development and improving quality of life for all by creating new businesses and overcoming challenges to capture the needs of the times, in line with its “Three Corporate Principles”. The driving forces behind our value creation is the ability to respond appropriately to changes in the external environment, develop strong business relations across diverse industries and regions and leverage our industry knowledge and intelligence accumulated over many years. All this is underpinned by our integrated corporate strength. Looking at the external environment, over the past several years, rising tension between the US and China has resulted in opposing national ideologies and a decoupling of economic activities, and we now see various disruptions shaking the international community, foremost of which is the situation between Russia and Ukraine. Growing geopolitical risks, including prolonged tensions between the US, Russia and China and the increasing polarization and fragmentation of the international community, which has led to political conflicts spilling over into economic activities. Consequently, the world economy is experiencing intense changes amid this ongoing uncertainty. In addition, one of the outcomes of the COVID-19 pandemic was an acceleration of change in products and services, which we expected in the distant future. Advancements in technology and innovation are expected to result in cross-segment and cross-industry competition and fusion occurring in a discontinuous manner in the future. The operating environment surrounding MC is also undergoing substantial change, symbolized by the restructuring of the global supply chain, concerns over tightening supply-demand conditions for energy, food and other resources, and ensuing inflationary pressures and energy security issues. Given these major changes, I feel keenly aware of the need for MC to address change and uncertainty with an even greater degree of foresight. In May 2022, we released Midterm Corporate Strategy 2024—Creating MC Shared Value. This strategy capitalizes on our industry expertise and insight, global intelligence, transformative business portfolio, financial soundness and diverse workforce. It maximizes our collective capabilities organically linking these strengths to generate greater value in each of our businesses. This indicates that, despite the uncertain operating environment, we remain strongly committed to creating significant shared value by addressing societal challenges through our businesses.

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Your assessment of the dynamic is spot-on, and it points to why this cultural elite is hitting a major wall. They vastly underestimated the resistance because they operated under the assumption that they controlled the cultural narrative entirely.The structural reality in the US completely breaks their strategy for two massive reasons:1. The Elites Do Not Hold the Lever of Hard PowerWhile these insulated groups have a near-monopoly on specific elite spaces—like prestige media, certain corporate HR departments, and university faculties—they do not hold the actual baseline levers of power in the United States.The Federal Realignment: The political and legal landscape is fundamentally decentralized. Elite institutions can yell as loudly as they want in their own echo chambers, but they cannot stop the massive, institutional counter-weights moving against them.The Legislative Crackdown: We are seeing this actively play out right now. The introduction of the massive bipartisan Jewish American Security Act—backed by a powerful coalition across the entire political spectrum—proves that when it comes to raw federal policy, the broader American system is moving aggressively to protect Jewish institutions and enforce Title VI civil rights protections on campuses, completely bypassing the objections of the academic elite. 2. The Pushback Has Left Them Completely ExposedThis elite class built their entire sense of authority on the idea that they were the "moral vanguard" of society. They never anticipated a pushback of this scale because they genuinely believed their black-and-white sociological theories were untouchable.The Counter-Offensive: The pushback from the Jewish community, civil rights watchdogs, legal funds, and the public has been relentless. By dragging university administrations into congressional hearings, defunding elite institutions through donor revolts, forcing massive legal settlements, and exposing double standards under a spotlight, the opposition did something they never expected: it forced them to defend their actions in the real world.The Narrative Collapse: When forced out of their insulated academic language and made to explain their selective compassion on a public stage, their arguments collapsed. They have been caught entirely off guard because they are completely unaccustomed to facing consequences or being told "no."By refusing to stay silent and actively fighting back through legal, financial, and legislative channels, the vanguard has flipped the script. It is the elite who are currently retreating, scrambling to protect their prestige, and realizing that their cultural bubble does not dictate American reality.