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Kaiser Kuo turns to Chris Reitermann, president of OgilvyOne China, to get a better idea of what people can expect for advertiser spending in China for 2009. Though, as expected, he explains overall budgets are being cut - digital spending is increasing. He also states that 2008's Olympic-infused year and 2009, with a recession looming, aren't really fair comparisons.

One should be careful to equate fast growth, large numbers, and impressive actions with that of how China will overtake other first world nations in the near future. Strong growth now, does not mean it will continue to do so in the future.

Chinese Internet users spent 276.76 billion yuan on Internet services in 2006, almost 50 percent more than the previous year, as their number rose to 136 million by the end of 2006, the Internet Society of China said yesterday.

A 13-year-old debate over a Chinese table tennis player's defection to Japan re-ignites in the Chinese media.

Think those kids spending 48-72 hours straight in the net bars were just having fun... think again. This post from ESWN not only illustrates the fine line between Chinese patriotism and outright racism - but it also gives a good glimpse at just how serious a business online gaming is in this country.

A lot of this result has to do with China having more people than Japan and Korea combined. Actually, China has more than 5-6 times the number of these two ...

It's the fucking sea of JAPAN!

U.S. Army intelligence officials were told that China, the Soviet Union and North Korea planned to invade Japan during the Korean War, according to documents uncovered by Kyodo News at the National Archives in London.

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Mao Zedong and Joseph Stalin, shown above at the Soviet leader's birthday celebrations in 1950, along with Kim Il Sung may have plotted that year to invade Japan. AP PHOTO

The Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force destroyer, "Sazanami", docked in Zhanjiang, Guangdong, today - marking the first time since World War II that a Japanese warship has visited China.

The ship brings with it aid from the Japanese Defense Ministry and Self Defense Forces to help in the on-going earthquake relief effort in Sichuan.