You do know its possible to change the name of something foreign to a local dialect?
Just googling "Chinese whiskey invention" comes up with masses of lists of Chinese inventions, among them brandy and whiskey as distilled pure alcohol from wine being frozen, long before the first European written records. Even on the wikipedia of whiskey it casts doubt over it being a scottish invention.
As for vodka, it technically can be made with anything that ferments but yes the best tasting ones are from wheat and other grains (such as rye). Yum! :D