Posted on 10/23/2014 3:14:29 AM PDT by Olog-hai
China may ban Facebook, but not its co-founder Mark Zuckerberg, who entertained an audience of students in Beijing with a 30-minute chat in his recently learned Mandarin Chinese.
There was no explicit discussion of China’s ban on the social media site, which has been in place since 2009, though an indirect reference to it drew laughter during the question-and-answer session Wednesday at the prestigious Tsinghua University. Both Zuckerberg and the university posted video clips of the Q&A online. […]
“Speaking of China, I have a more difficult question for Mark, which I hope will not get me fired. What are Facebook’s plans in China?” asked the forum facilitator and Facebook employee Wei Xiaoliang, to the laughter and applause from the audience.
“We are already in China,” Zuckerberg said in Chinese, to more laughter. “We help Chinese companies gain customers abroad. We want to help the rest of the world connect to China.” …
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While Hong Kong demonstrates for democracy, Zuckerberg makes nice with the oppressors.
While Americans demonstrate for democracy, Zuckerberg makes nice with Obama.
And the Progressives still complain about the Robber Barons such as Rockefeller, Carnegie, Crédit Mobilier of America..... and their governmental corruption.
Kowtow!
Leftists always seem to love China these days, hasn’t nearly every NY Times columnist praised China as a political model?
Well, Red China has many sins on her soul. I am not sure that prohibiting Facebook is one of them.
They ban him until he complies with them, is all.
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