

Fresh from his run through Tiananmen Square amid an AQI of 229, Facebook’s supreme leader met with politburo member Liu Yunshan to discuss the future of cyberspace.

According to Xinhua, Liu expressed hope that Facebook would “work with Chinese internet enterprises to enhance exchanges and share experience so as to make outcome of the internet development better benefit the people of all countries.”

Zuckerberg is reported to have spoken highly of the progress China has made with the internet, saying that he would work with Chinese peers to create a better world in cyberspace.

Does this mean that after all his sycophantic overtures which has seen him learn Mandarin, brush up on Xi Jinping’s magnum opus and ask the great leader himself to offer up a name for his daughter, that he’s finally hit the big time in Beijing? Only time will tell.

At the very least, he appears to have been spared an interrogation as to why he made use of an illegal VPN to make yesterday’s Facebook post.



It's great to be back in Beijing! I kicked off my visit with a run through Tiananmen Square, past the Forbidden City and… Posted by Mark Zuckerberg on Thursday, 17 March 2016

Mark loveS China 🙂 Posted by 我要開studio on Friday, 18 March 2016

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Since the image of Mark jogging through Beijing hit the internet, some unharmonious Facebook users at 我要開studio have published a set of images poking fun at his run through the capital.[Image via Xinhua