Since the United States currently holds a commercial, economic, and financial embargo against the Republic of Cuba, no American companies may trade with Cuba. The Korean War took place from to , and during this time the United States imposed trade sanctions on North Korea. When North Korea bombed South Korean during the s, these sanctions were tightened further. From to , trade between the U.
Burma Myanmar was Coca-Cola-free for many years, after American companies were banned following economic sanctions that the U. Coca-Cola first arrived in China in , and enjoyed widespread popularity.
When communist leader Mao Zedong took over in though, many imported goods such as Coca-Cola were banned. Vietnam citizens also had Coca-Cola taken away for a number of years due to a U.
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It is sold in upscale grocery stores that cater to the capital's elite and a growing number of middle class residents, who are increasingly earning enough hard cash through entrepreneurial side businesses to purchase more than bare necessities.
Coke from China can also be quaffed in international hotels frequented by both locals who can afford their high prices and foreign tourists and business people, most of them from China as well. Pepsi sightings are rarer. The cola served at restaurants and lining the shelves in stores where more typical North Koreans shop are likely to be local imitations, though one of the more popular ones could, from a distance, easily pass as a Coke.
Its 1. But instead of the usual Chinese phonetic characters for Coca-Cola, it has "Cocoa-flavored Sweet Soda Drink" splashed across its label in yellow Korean lettering. In North Korea — the other Coca-Cola -free zone — recent media reports suggested it was being sold in a restaurant in Pyongyang.
But Coca-Cola says if any drinks are being sold in either North Korea or Cuba, they are being smuggled in on the black market, not via official channels. The dark fizzy soda was created in in Atlanta, Georgia. From the early days the Coca-Cola company looked to expand worldwide, and by the early s it was bottling the drink in Asia and Europe.
There were more than 60 military bottling plants for Coca-Cola around the world during the war, and locals got a taste for the drink too. During the Cold War, Coca-Cola became a symbol of capitalism and a faultline between capitalism and communism.
It was not marketed in the former Soviet Union due to the fear that profits would go straight into communist government coffers. Pepsi filled the gap and was widely sold. Drinking Coca-Cola became a symbol of freedom. Other than the former Soviet Union, the main region that Coca-Cola has struggled in historically is the Middle East, largely due to a boycott implemented by the Arab League from , as a punishment for it selling in Israel.
Pepsi picked up a lot of the sales in the Middle East — and many local versions of the drink thrived. Coca-Cola is not trying to get involved in politics, but as a huge brand so closely associated with the US, it sometimes finds itself tangled up in politics, or singled out for criticism. In , protesters in Thailand poured Coca-Cola onto the streets as a demonstration against the US-led invasion of Iraq, and sales were temporarily suspended.
But years after its birth, Coca-Cola is still pushing forward in terms of sales, with strong growth — especially, it says, in the emerging markets of India, China and Brazil.
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