China provides the U.S. with lots of inexpensive goods.\u00a0 In return, the U.S. sells back to China many high-end luxury products.<\/p>\n
Here’s a case in point.\u00a0 If you pick up a copy of Window of the South, a highly respected bi-weekly business magazine in China, you’ll find lots of advertisements for expensive luxury products.\u00a0 In the latest issue, there’s an ad inside the front cover for a delicious imported alcoholic beverage.\u00a0 It shows a tall champagne flute holding a beautiful amber liquid, next to an elegant brown-and-gold bottle, standing together proudly upon an oaken cask.\u00a0 The copy raves that the premium wood and craftsmanship of the casks creates the product’s wondrous color and flavor, and ends by describing it as “truly a treasure.”\u00a0 Mmm, yummy.<\/p>\n
Is it Scotch?\u00a0 No.<\/p>\n
Wine?\u00a0Uh-uh!<\/p>\n
It’s a beer.\u00a0 But not just any beer, a beer with a long and distinguished tradition.\u00a0 First brewed in 1844 by German immigrants, this ambrosia has won many international awards.\u00a0 It was the choice of the rich and powerful for years, including Bob Hope, who famously served it in his home. It was once one of the most popular beers in America, selling as many as 15MM barrels a year.\u00a0 It is synonymous with American craftsmanship.\u00a0 It is, quite simply, a legend.<\/p>\n
No wonder, then, that it is craved by the Chinese quaffing cognoscenti; in China, it is known as “Blue Ribbon 1844” and retails for $44 bucks a bottle.<\/p>\n
But here in the States, you can buy a six-pack for about 4 bucks.<\/p>\n
You know it as Pabst Blue Ribbon.\u00a0 Mmm, yummy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"China provides the U.S. with lots of inexpensive goods.\u00a0 In return, the U.S. sells back to China many high-end luxury products. Here’s a case in point.\u00a0 If you pick up a copy of Window of the South, a highly respected bi-weekly business magazine in China, you’ll find lots of advertisements…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[123,241,490,914],"class_list":["post-50","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-5","tag-beer","tag-china","tag-german","tag-pabst-blue-ribbon"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quicksilverhg.com\/thequicksliver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quicksilverhg.com\/thequicksliver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quicksilverhg.com\/thequicksliver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quicksilverhg.com\/thequicksliver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quicksilverhg.com\/thequicksliver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/quicksilverhg.com\/thequicksliver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quicksilverhg.com\/thequicksliver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quicksilverhg.com\/thequicksliver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quicksilverhg.com\/thequicksliver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}