"Starbucks must move out of the imperial palace immediately, and it can no longer be allowed to taint China's national culture," said Jiang Hongbin, who represents the north-eastern province of Heilongjiang at the National People's Congress (NPC), a rubber-stamp legislature that meets once a year.
"As long as it stays in the imperial palace, it poses a challenge to our traditional culture," said Jiang, who is president of Heilongjiang Chia Tai Co., a unit of Thai agricultural conglomerate CP Group.
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