News Analysis Starbucks offers an “American lifestyle experience” for $4 a cup. But buying American brew—one of the only ways the Chinese can vote—is threatening the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). People’s Daily is the official newspaper of the CCP. If Xi Jinping wants an opinion published, it would appear there. So when People’s Daily publishes something, China and the rest of the world pay attention. On Feb. 15, People’s Daily found a flimsy excuse to attack Starbucks. Apparently, according to a social media user on China’s Weibo, a hapless Starbucks employee in Chongqing city asked some police officers eating outside the store to move along. Some Chinese netizens were outraged. People’s Daily caught a whiff of viral controversy, or perhaps the excuse for which it was waiting. Their columnists normally stick to loftier topics, but they stooped down to address the issue in a commentary by calling Starbucks “arrogant,” thus …