American brands in Beijing (14 images)

Chinese staff working at a Texas barbecue restaurant celebrate America's Independence Day in downtown Beijing on July 4, 2008. (UPI Photo/Stephen Shaver)

Chinese Hooters waitresses pose for a photographs in the first Hooters restaurant to be opened in Beijing October 25, 2007. Hooters, with two branches in China, offers it customers a taste of the Americana with its signature combination of cold beer, chicken wings and waitresses in clingy shirts and orange high-cut shorts. (UPI Photo/Stephen Shaver)

Chinese shop for cars at an international car sales lot featuring American car giants Ford and Buick in Beijing on May 6, 2011. China has found some U.S.-made passenger cars benefited from unfair subsidies, damaging its carmakers, although Beijing side-stepped a potential trade row with the United States by not tagging them with duties. UPI/Stephen Shaver

Chinese paramilitary soldiers drill outside an Outback Steakhouse in Beijing on May 13, 2010. China ordered local governments to tighten security around public areas, schools and kindergartens, particularly in rural areas, after a series of attacks over two months left more than a dozen students dead. UPI/Stephen Shaver