Facebook's CEO meets propaganda czar in China charm drive

Beijing

Facebook's co-founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg met China's propaganda tsar Liu Yunshan in Beijing on Saturday as part of a charm offensive in one of the few markets where the social network cannot be accessed.

The rare meeting, reported by China's state news agency Xinhua, suggests warming relations between Facebook and the Chinese government, even as Beijing steps up censorship of and control over the Internet.

Mr Liu, who sits on the Communist Party's Politburo Standing Committee which is the apex of po…