Starbucks will more than double its number of locations in China by 2021, increasing the company’s bet on a country that CEO Howard Schultz says eventually could be a bigger market than the US.

Starbucks plans to accelerate its expansion in China, shrugging off concerns about a slowdown in the coffee chain’s second-largest market behind the US and a potential further depreciation of the yuan.

GLOBAL demand for coffee is set to keep climbing, and even a doubling in the cost of the commodity over the last 12 months has failed to quench consumers’ thirst.