Fellow FTers, this is zyxlsy reporting from Beijing.

Just stepped into water by swiping my CSP at a Starbucks in Financial District Beijing to see what happens. To my surprise, there was no DCC at all.

The Starbucks in Beijing all use Bank of China machine with card reader and keypad in front of the customers, just like in the US. My experience with BoC is that they have DCC, and it is quite hard to turn off. However, seems like Starbucks in Beijing turn it off spontaneously. To prove, I visited another Starbucks a few blocks away and got the same result (no DCC).

Since all Starbucks are owned and operated by the Starbucks directly, I assume this no DCC situation is true to all Starbucks in China.

Maybe everybody else can all try using a Visa card at some Starbucks and see what happens, and post the results back here. If there is DCC, the loss would be less than a dollar.