{"id":152533,"date":"2026-06-05T16:01:05","date_gmt":"2026-06-05T16:01:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=152533"},"modified":"2026-06-05T16:01:05","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T16:01:05","slug":"how-chinese-drink-chains-are-testing-the-limits-of-soft-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=152533","title":{"rendered":"How Chinese drink chains are testing the limits of soft power"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostMakeda George steps out of a Mixue store in downtown Brooklyn, New York, clutching a bubble tea as she weaves through a crowd of teenagers. The local resident says she had been eager to try the brand after noticing a surge of new outlets opening in recent months.<br \/>\n\u201cI decided to try the bubble tea. It was good,\u201d she said, adding that she did not know it was a Chinese drink chain but figured it was Asian given the branding.<br \/>\n\u201cEverywhere you go, every nook, every cranny, you just see them popping&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/us\/article\/3356110\/how-chinese-drink-chains-are-testing-limits-soft-power?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostMakeda George steps out of a Mixue store in downtown Brooklyn, New York, clutching a bubble tea as she weaves through a crowd of&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152533"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=152533"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152533\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=152533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=152533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=152533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}