Mark Zuckerberg began his China trip in Beijing, where he met with China’s top search engine Baidu. China still blocks Facebook, shutting out around 300 million potential Facebook users of their 1.6 billion population. This is a high-priority for the social network, so much so that Zuckerberg has taken Mandarin lessons “for a while now.”
Twitter was buzzing with rumors of a possible acquisition of Facebook by Baidu, but these rumors were squashed when Baidu’s director of international communications Kaiser Kuo responded that they were “greatly exaggerated.”
Zuckerberg is definitely mixing business with pleasure, traveling with his longtime Chinese-American girlfriend, Priscilla Chan, who has family in China.
via Forbes