Starbucks is gambling on China, and it could backfire

Junko Kimura/Getty Images Over the past year, global markets have been weighed down by concerns about China's economic growth, which sank to a 25-year low in 2015. That decline darkened the outlook of many U.S. companies which are dependent on the Chinese economy. Yet one such company — Starbucks — doesn't seem worried at all. During last quarter's conference call, Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz said that the coffee chain was "just getting started" in China, its largest market outside the Un...