> Drinking alcohol - particularly the potent rice-based spirit bai jiu - plays an important ritualised role in business and government circles in China. from h

> Drinking alcohol - particularly the potent rice-based spirit bai jiu - plays an important ritualised role in business and government circles in China. from http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/8350170.stm http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/8350170.stm There have been quite a number of stories of death from this. Your assumptions about China are out of sync with reality.