In addition to outspending Japanese tourists, however, in the last two months, Chinese arrivals in South Korea may have outnumbered those from Japan.
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This week, America was simultaneously grateful for Chinese help in persuading North Korea to return (well, perhaps return) to six-party talks about its nuclear programme, and angry (especially in Congress) at the Europeans for wanting to sell China more arms.
Chinese Zodiac is scheduled for release in Korea next month, with the rest of the world following after that.
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Chinese companies are also investing in North Korea's mines, although many complain of corruption and a lack of respect for contracts.
Since the suspension of those talks in 2009, China has poured investment into its border regions to try to encourage Chinese-style market reforms in North Korea.
Under a ferocious assault from Chinese communists at Unsan, Korea in November 1950, Kapaun repeatedly dodged enemy fire to pull comrades to safety, and to tend to their injuries.
All the same, governments in other places planning carbon pricing, such as South Korea and some Chinese provinces, will watch what unfolds in Australia with interest.
It turned out that because a Danish team had earlier upset another Chinese pair, the winner of the China-Korea match would have to face that Chinese pair in the next round.
"We'd like to see as many Chinese tourists as possible visit the complex in Korea instead of Macau, " project manager Cho Hang-man said.
As well as humans for work or sex (another area of competitive advantage for women entrepreneurs), the Chinese pay for medicinal herbs foraged in North Korea's hills, furs and drugs (methamphetamines).
"We just hope the country is able to protect our rights and interests, and lessen the instances of Chinese boats being detained by North Korea in China's territorial waters, " Mr. Yu wrote.
Importantly, the trip takes place at a time when Chinese diplomatic pressure is on North Korea to be less belligerent towards the South, and Chinese influence in the North is growing.
Until recently, Chinese officials in particular had expressed scepticism that North Korea even had a uranium-enrichment programme.
Instead of billing monthly and letting users pay through their mobile phones, as most do in South Korea, they offer Chinese users pre-paid accounts.
Newspaper reports suggest the defence ministry will increase Japan's submarine fleet for the first time since 1976, adding two submarines to counter both North Korea and increased Chinese naval activity in seas near Japan.
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South Korea catches 300 Chinese trawlers a year in South Korean waters.
To this day, interestingly, skin whitening products are enormously popular amongst Chinese women, as they also are in Japan and Korea and elsewhere.
Beijing and Chinese companies have also played leading roles in aiding North Korea's development of missile systems and nuclear technologies, according to U.S. and United Nations officials.
In fact, Chinese manufacturers purchased more machine tools in 2010 than were purchased by all of the companies in South Korea, the United States, Germany, Japan, Italy, India and Taiwan combined.
Many passengers are Korean-speaking Chinese, who have gone to South Korea to work in factories or on construction projects.
Certainly, China will feel some pain, particularly because the economic slump in Japan and Korea will hurt demand for Chinese products.
There are unconfirmed reports that North Korea has boosted security at the Chinese border in recent years to slow the flow of defectors.
Pyongyang, according to Chinese visitors, is better fed than anywhere else in North Korea, but even here no meat or eggs seemed to be available.
But others appear not to welcome this position, including Wu Dawei, the senior Chinese official involved in talks aimed at getting rid of North Korea's nuclear weapons.
Google said that hackers tried to obtain the account details of hundreds of users, including senior American government figures, Chinese political activists, officials in several Asian countries (mostly South Korea), military personnel and journalists.
In fact, North Korea borders Russia there, with Chinese territory ending ten miles (16km) inland.
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