- Mark Zuckerberg wanted to speak to Xi Jinping at the 2016 APEC summit in Lima, Peru.
- He had a dressing room next to the eleventh and successive speeches with the Chinese leader.
- But Shi has swept enough people to create a “wall” between them – and the conversation has never happened.
Mark Zuckerberg was hoping to be able to meet the leader of China, Xi Jinping, on the sidelines of the APEC summit held in Lima, Peru in 2016.
But something does not seem interested.
Sarah Win Williams, a previous executive director on Facebook, said that she was with Zuckerberg when the failed attempt occurred in a meeting. She detailed the incident in her memoirs, “The neglected people”, which was published on Tuesday.
In her book, Wynn-Williams wrote that she tried to engineer an “automatic meeting” between Zuckerberg and XI. I did this by securing a switching room for Zuckerberg next to the eleventh. According to her account, she also arranged the main Zuckerberg speech at the top before the eleventh.
However, the opportunity to meet Wynn-Williams and Zuckerberg was hoping not to go out.
Instead, Wynn-Williams said that Zuckerberg found himself that he was banned from the eleventh point of view by the security details of the Chinese leader.
“It is a group of men, in an identical gray costume, who walk in the formation of what is after us. Mark is staring at disbelief, the open mouth. They only continue to come, dozens and dozens of them.”
“It is almost comic. Only when you think it is no longer any bigger step,” she wrote.
Wayne Williams wrote the “Men”, which ended in the formation of a “ir and an unbearable line” between XI and Zuckerberg changing rooms, describing them as a “human wall”.
Wayne Williams wrote: “The president is so vague that he does not even have to risk contact with the eye with Mark,” adding that the men of Xi had dispersed after entering the dressing room.
“Oh, I think the clouds will not happen,” Zuckerberg told Win -Williams.
Certainly, Zuckerberg managed to meet XI on other occasions.
In September 2015, Zuckerberg managed to speak to the eleventh when Chinese leader Seattle visited a two -day visit. They spoke shortly, and later posted a picture of himself with XI on Facebook. Zuckerberg said that he spoke to something completely in the Chinese language, and he called the moment.A meaningful personal teacher“
In October 2017, Tim Cook, CEO of Apple, met Tim Cook at the University of Tsinghwa University in Beijing.
Wynn-Williams-an international lawyer and a former diplomat in New Zealand-joined Facebook in 2011 and became the director of global public policy.
In her book, Wynn-Williams gave her account for Facebook efforts to enter the Chinese market. Facebook leaders have written in making great concessions, including allowing Beijing to control how and what content has been shown on the platform.
When asked about the book, a Meta Business Insider told that the stories in it came from “an employee who was finished eight years ago due to poor performance.”
“We are not running our services in China today. It is not a secret that we were interested in doing this as part of Facebook efforts to connect the world,” the spokesman said.
“This was widely reported a decade ago. In the end, we have chosen not to pass the ideas that we explored, which Mark Zuckerberg announced in 2019,” the spokesman added.
In a separate response to the Wynn-Williams book, Facebook also directed BI to Zuckerberg’s comments on China in 2019.
During Zuckerberg’s 2019 letter At George Town University – protest controls on platforms such as Facebook, Tiktok competitor.
Then Zuckerberg described “one of the reasons that make us not work on Facebook, Instagram or our other services in China.”
“I wanted our services in China because I believe in linking the entire world, and I thought we might help create a more open society,” Zuckerberg said. “I worked hard to achieve this. But we were unable to reach an agreement on what it would require for us to work there, and they have never allowed us to enter.”
Facebook has not reached the Great Wall of China – and even today, Meta basic products remain closed from the isolated social media system in China.
Meanwhile, the Chinese runs an environmental system for social media applications that work independently of their western publications. BidoWeChat, Weibo, Xiaohongshu, and Douyin – Chinese alternatives to Google, WhatsApp, X, Instagram and Tiktok – they are used in the country instead.
Meta representatives and Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs did not respond to the BI suspension requests.
