Every business wants a piece of China. Now, Facebook has made its move as CEO Mark Zuckerberg toured the offices of China’s top search engine, Baidu on Monday.
This visit again signals Mark Zuckerberg’s intention to establish Facebook in China. The TIME’s 2010 Person of the Year has been studying the Chinese language and its culture.
Back in October, Zuckerberg said in an interview, “How can you connect the whole world if you leave out 1.6 billion people?”
Kaiser Kuo, Baidu‘s director of international communications, told The Associated Press that Zuckerberg had lunch with Baidu CEO Robin Li. He said he didn’t know what they talked about but added that the two had met before. Zuckerberg, who co-founded Facebook, is traveling with his girlfriend, Priscilla Chan, and no apparent entourage.
“Mark has had a long personal interest in China,” Kuo said.
Zuckerberg’s visit has caused an eruption of rumors. Including a joke about Baidu acquiring Facebook. In response, Kuo quashed the speculations through a tweet, stating that Zuckerberg and Li have been friends for a long time.
Facebook is known to execute its plan swiftly to meet changing circumstances. Renren, the largest social network in China, which recently applied for a U.S IPO, might have fueled Facebook to take action. It’s just a deduction, not a fact. Renren currently has over 120 million users, mostly from China and Taiwan. We’ll see how Facebook takes on China’s firewall.
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I think we could see the first real American internet company win in China…
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