Facebook's CEO is in China today, where 1.6 billion people still don't know what Facebook is thanks to China's censorship of politically sensitive sites and pretty much everything that makes America great (cat videos on YouTube, we mean). According to the AP though, everyone in China is still aware that this Zuckerberg fellow is Time Magazine's 2010 Person of the Year, so it's kind of a big deal when he has a meeting with the CEO of Baidu, China's top search engine (you are, of course, free to google that).

Readers on our sister site Shanghaiist first spotted Zuck around Beijing and it kicked off speculation about what kind of business Facebook would be doing in China: On the one hand, the Atlantic weighs the possibilities of various Baidu-Facebook deals - none of which seem promising for Facebook who, despite being the 800-bajillion-pound gorilla in the US, would still have a lot of ground to make up in the Chinese market. On the other hand, Gawker seems to think Facebook.cn is inevitable, it's just a matter of whether or not Zuckerberg is willing to let the Chinese government censor his site (or to what degree).

Meanwhile, Baidu's director of international communications tried to brush the whole thing off saying, "Mark has had a long personal interest in China." Which: duh, we all saw the movie, right?

[Shanghaiist]
[AP/SFExaminer]
[The Atlantic]
[Gawker]