Don Weinland

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359 appearances 5 recordings 1 series first heard May 2026 last heard 28 Aug

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The Intelligence from The Economist · Equal before the law? Transitional justice in Syria · 18 May 2026 podcast

And that, I think, has had an impact on alcohol sales over the past couple.

I think it's a bit different.

So, you know, whiskey, of course, is a foreign product.

It originally was imported into China before it was produced locally.

And it's being viewed these days as something of a luxury product.

And when we look at luxury spending in China on luxury products, handbags, shoes, really expensive stuff like that, that area is actually doing pretty well.

What we're seeing

Consumption-wise in China is kind of the hollowing out of mid-tier products.

Really cheap stuff is very popular and really expensive stuff is doing pretty well.

That's why we see whiskey imports hitting a record high last year.

So there wasn't a decade ago.

Chinese whiskey makers exported something like $5 million worth of whiskey.

Fast forward to last year, and they're exporting $585 million worth of whiskey.

So suddenly China has become a relevant whiskey exporter in the region.

This is another reason why people are investing in distilleries in China.

They're seeing that there is actually

a foreign market for their whiskey.

And this is how, you know, the Hunan whiskey ended up in your studio today.

What you have there, Jason, is a blended whiskey.

That's mainly what you will see on the market in China right now.

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