Despite China's tea culture, Starbucks successfully established itself as a public venue in which professional tribes gather to proclaim their affiliation with the new-generation elite.
We also heard from the Renfrewshire company selling tea to China, we heard about the role of Edinburgh University's world-leading informatics department.
Not so China's poorer interior, where the dark colour of colas is associated with the dark tea traditionally used to mask the sediment in the local water.