Meta to Return to China After 14 Years
WSJ What’s News
The Wall Street Journal
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🗓️ 10 November 2023
⏱️ 15 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Meta regains its foothold in China. |
| 0:07.0 | Plus, Novoordisk rushes to up production of its popular obesity treatments, |
| 0:12.0 | and we'll look at how the US let its influence in Latin America slip away. |
| 0:17.0 | There's a lot of frustration here. |
| 0:19.0 | They want to do business with the US, |
| 0:21.0 | but the US is not playing ball because US domestic politics |
| 0:25.2 | has changed quite dramatically in terms of promoting domestic industry and |
| 0:29.5 | perhaps ignoring parts of the rest of the world. |
| 0:32.4 | It is Friday, November 10th. I'm Luke Varnie. ignoring parts of the rest of the world. |
| 0:32.6 | It is Friday, November 10th. |
| 0:34.4 | I'm Luke Vargas for the Wall Street Journal, |
| 0:36.6 | and here is the AM edition of What's News? |
| 0:39.6 | The top headlines and business stories |
| 0:41.5 | moving your world today. |
| 0:47.0 | Meta is returning to China. |
| 0:51.0 | We're exclusively reporting that it struck a preliminary deal with the |
| 0:54.3 | world's largest video game company, Tencent, to sell its meta- Virtual Reality |
| 0:58.9 | headsets in the country as early as next year. The deal comes 14 years after Facebook was shut out of China and |
| 1:06.5 | Journal reporter Raphael Huang told us it could open up a major new market for Meta's |
| 1:10.9 | VR gear. The global shipment of VR headsets has been declining in recent quarters |
| 1:16.0 | due to the weakened economy and aging product offerings. |
| 1:20.0 | So the market is wondering whether VR headsets are able to win over a broader base of consumers. |
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