A decade after The Walt Disney Company began negotiations to launch a joint venture theme park with a Chinese state-owned enterprise, the company finally opened the gates Thursday to its $5.5 billion Shanghai Disney Resort.
That news has been overshadowed in the U.S., however, by continuing coverage of the alligator attack that killed a two-year-old boy at Disney World in Orlando. The toddler’s body was recovered Wednesday afternoon from a lagoon at the resort, the day after he disappeared into the water in the animal’s grasp.
