Zuckerberg's speech hints at China hopes

Beijing

MARK Zuckerberg knows how to court Chinese users: In a speech during the weekend at Tsinghua University in Beijing, he filled his remarks with compliments on the nation's history and with idioms of traditional Chinese wisdom.

Calling China a nation historically known for innovation, Mr Zuckerberg, the chief executive of Facebook, addressed students in heavily accented Mandarin and shared the now-familiar story of how he started his company on Harvard's campus. That Mr Zuckerberg speaks Mandarin is no longer news. But his speech underlined Facebook's eagerness to expand into China, where it remains blocked.