The canny marketing of imports from vodka to basketballs transformed the U.S.-China trade relationship.

MARCH 24, 2024, 6:00 AM

By Elizabeth O’Brien Ingleson, an assistant professor in the international history department at the London School of Economics and Political Science.

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On Oct. 25, 1976, U.S. businessman Charles Abrams traveled to New York City’s South Street Seaport to welcome a ship loaded with Chinese vodka. This was, according to Abrams, the first time the liquor had been commercially imported from China since 1949.

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