Consumer giants from Starbucks to General Mills have one big sales problem: China

Pictured here is a McDonald's store in Yichang, Hubei province, China, on July 30, 2024.Nurphoto | Nurphoto | Getty ImagesBEIJING — A theme emerging in the latest slew of U.S. companies' earnings reports is a drag from the China market.The Chinese economy — home to more than four times the population of the U.S. — has attracted multinational corporations for decades given its large, fast-growing market. But slower growth and intense local competition, amid tensions with the U.S., are now weighing on corpora ...