Brad Pitt to visit China, Google’s chair in North Korea

A Hollywood heartthrob and a high-profile executive chairman of a global business giant are eastward bound. Brad Pitt confirmed in his first entry on a verified account Sina Weibo, one of China’s hugely popular Twitter-like microblogs, that he’s visiting China, which had previously banned him after he starred in politically sensitive “Seven Years in Tibet.” Meanwhile, Google’s Eric Schmidt’s visit to North Korea as part of a US delegation is clouded in mystery. One speculation is that Google is positioning him as the company’s global ambassador following anti-trust issues in Europe and US, and Kim Jon Un’s recent speech about expanding science and technology as a way forward for North Korea.

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