Mark Zuckerberg courts China for Facebook with Mandarin speech
Mark Zuckerberg made a speech at Tsinghua University in Beijing this weekend, in Mandarin, highlighting Facebook's eagerness to expand in China, which has had a sharp increase in Internet users, but where the company continues to remain blocked.  Despite the speech being well received, and even if it does succeed in entering China, analysts believe Facebook will find it very hard to bow to censorship. 

BEIJING — Mark Zuckerberg knows how to court Chinese users: In a speech this 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.

Mr. Zuckerberg told his collegiate audience that his company had already overcome doubts about its international reach.