Chinese police arrest man who allegedly poured water over Baidu CEO’s head


  • TECH
  • Thursday, 04 Jul 2019

This framegrab taken from AFPTV shows a man (R) pouring water Baidu co-founder and CEO Robin Li during Baidu Create 2019 in Beijing on July 3, 2019. - A man burst on to a stage and poured water over the head of Li as the founder of China's dominant search engine spoke at a company-sponsored event on Artificial Intelligence. (Photo by QIAN Ye / AFPTV / AFP)

SHANGHAI: Chinese authorities have detained a man in connection with an investigation of an incident in which a man poured a bottle of water over Robin Li, chief executive of Chinese search giant Baidu Inc, at a conference, police said on July 4.

Li was making a keynote address on July 3 at the opening of an annual Baidu event to promote its advances in artificial intelligence (AI), when a man approached the stage and emptied a bottle of water over Li's head.

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