Whatever you think of Starbucks, Chinese TV anchorman Rui Chenggang gets things hilariously wrong when trying to stop them opening in the frobidden city.
“Rui said the coffee shop should be as unwelcome in the Forbidden City as it would be at the Taj Mahal in India, the pyramids in Egypt or the Louvre Museum in Paris.”
There is in fact now a Starbucks in the Louvre, as I found out to my amusement a couple of weeks ago.
This makes it welcome in the Forbidden city by Rui’s criteria.