{"id":6974,"date":"2010-12-19T19:12:35","date_gmt":"2010-12-19T19:12:35","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2010-12-21T04:12:18","modified_gmt":"2010-12-21T04:12:18","slug":"Facebook-CEO-visits-China-s-top-search-engine-Baidu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/?p=6974","title":{"rendered":"Facebook CEO visits China&#8217;s top search engine Baidu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg toured the offices of China&#8217;s top search engine Monday during a visit that has sparked speculation the social networking magnate is looking for business opportunities in the world&#8217;s largest Internet market.<\/p>\n<p><\/strong><strong>Facebook is blocked on the mainland, but Zuckerberg has expressed a business interest in China and has studied Mandarin.<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Photos of Zuckerberg&#8217;s visit to Baidu Inc. were quickly posted online.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Kaiser Kuo, Baidu&#8217;s director of international communications, told The Associated Press that Zuckerberg had lunch with Baidu CEO Robin Li. <\/strong>He said he didn&#8217;t know what they talked about but added that the two had met before.<\/p>\n<p>Zuckerberg, who co-founded Facebook, is traveling with his girlfriend, Priscilla Chan, and no apparent entourage.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Mark has had a long personal interest in China,&#8221; Kuo said.<\/p>\n<p><strong>But Zuckerberg has also hinted that he&#8217;s interested in more than that, saying during a speaking engagement in October, &#8220;How can you connect the whole world if you leave out 1.6 billion people?&#8221;<br \/>\n<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong><em>Very true.  Here at Asiance, we have been aware of that for many years!<\/em><\/strong>  <strong><em>We also stressed the need to learn Mandarin almost 5 years ago!<\/p>\n<p><\/em><\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.azcentral.com\/business\/articles\/2010\/12\/20\/20101220facebook-zuckerberg-china.html\" title=\"SOURCE\">SOURCE<\/a><br \/>\n<!--break--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg toured the offices of China&#8217;s top search engine Monday during a visit that has sparked speculation<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1213,"featured_media":72448,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"magazineBlocksPostFeaturedMedia":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u-113x150.jpg","medium":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg","medium_large":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg","large":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg","1536x1536":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg","2048x2048":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg","colormag-highlighted-post":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg","colormag-featured-post-medium":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg","colormag-featured-post-small":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u-113x90.jpg","colormag-featured-image":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg","colormag-default-news":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u-113x150.jpg","colormag-featured-image-large":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg","colormag-elementor-block-extra-large-thumbnail":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg","colormag-elementor-grid-large-thumbnail":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg","colormag-elementor-grid-small-thumbnail":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg","colormag-elementor-grid-medium-large-thumbnail":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg"},"magazineBlocksPostAuthor":{"name":"Joshua","avatar":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/62ee23f8f40307578d1f284ecd823d77f32da8ea35541e7dbdafeb5da1a4e877?s=96&d=mm&r=g"},"magazineBlocksPostCommentsNumber":"28","magazineBlocksPostExcerpt":"Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg toured the offices of China&#8217;s top search engine Monday during a visit that has sparked speculation","magazineBlocksPostCategories":[],"magazineBlocksPostViewCount":554,"magazineBlocksPostReadTime":1,"magazine_blocks_featured_image_url":{"full":["https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg",113,170,false],"medium":["https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg",113,170,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u-113x150.jpg",113,150,true]},"magazine_blocks_author":{"display_name":"Joshua","author_link":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/?author=1213"},"magazine_blocks_comment":28,"magazine_blocks_author_image":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/62ee23f8f40307578d1f284ecd823d77f32da8ea35541e7dbdafeb5da1a4e877?s=96&d=mm&r=g","magazine_blocks_category":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6974","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1213"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6974"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6974\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/72448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}