Taiwanese commentator: Starbucks opening a store in Xinjiang has shattered all the past smear campaigns by anti-China forces

China News Service, October 9 (Yanxintai) On the eve of the National Day, the country's first Starbucks intangible cultural heritage flagship store "Star Bazaar" opened its doors in the Xinjiang International Grand Bazaar Scenic Area to welcome customers. The store incorporates Xinjiang elements such as Adelaide silk and ethnic musical instruments, attracting many people to queue up to buy. This is also one of the first two stores opened by Starbucks, a well-known American multinational coffee chain brand, in Xinjiang.

On October 1, there was a long queue at the door of "Star Bazaar", the country's first Starbucks intangible cultural heritage flagship store. Photo by Chu Xu

Taiwanese current affairs commentator Chen Fengxin said on a political commentary program on the island: "Starbucks opened a store in Xinjiang just in time for the National Day holiday in mainland China. The store's performance is really good!"

Taiwanese current affairs commentator Tang Xianglong also commented on the political commentary program that "Star Bazaar" incorporates some local cultural elements and the feeling of drinking coffee is really different. "Many service industries will come to Xinjiang in the future, (proving) that all the past smear campaigns against Xinjiang collapsed and failed."

Starbucks’ creative meals in Xinjiang. (Photo courtesy of Starbucks)

Chen Fengxin said that showing local culture to tourists from all over the world is the only way to truly embrace local culture. If you want to smear the mainland and destroy local culture, you can talk about many so-called "big principles", but if you really want to improve Xinjiang culture, Starbucks will do a good job in opening a store in Xinjiang this time.

Tang Xianglong also bluntly said, "(Some people) say that Xinjiang cotton is 'forced labor', which is really crazy. Whoever still uses 'forced labor' today basically pays a lot of money to hire people, or it is harvested by machines." He said that when Starbucks entered the Xinjiang market, anti-China forces were worried that if Starbucks became more and more prosperous, there would not be only two Starbucks. It was foreseeable that Starbucks would enter the Tibetan market or other places in the future. In other words, there is no place in mainland China that foreign-funded enterprises cannot go to, which is what these politicians are very unwilling to see.