Zuckerberg stuns with Chinese chat

China may ban Facebook, but not its co-founder and chief executive Mark Zuckerberg, who stunned and delighted an audience of students in Beijing with a 30-minute chat in his recently learned Mandarin Chinese.

There was no explicit discussion of China’s ban on the social media site, which has been in place since 2009, though an indirect reference to it drew laughter during the Q&A session at the prestigious Tsinghua University.

Zuckerberg, whose company has long sought to enter the Chinese market, noted that Facebook already helps some Chinese firms in foreign markets, citing computer maker Lenovo’s ads on Facebook in India.