Welcome to China Compass on the Fight Laugh Feast Network! I'm your China travel guide, Missionary Ben, coming to you from the Pacific Northwest! Follow me on Twitter/X (@chinaadventures) where I post daily reminders to pray for China (PrayforChina.us). X is also the best way to contact me. Just follow and either tag me in a message or send a DM.

After discussing Pastor Wang Yi’s bold message for Dictator Xi (6:40), I explain how China’s “Great Leader” got Winnie the Pooh cancelled on the mainland (10:49). Then, after a promo for The Memoirs of William Milne (19:18), we look briefly at Trump’s not-so-wise position regarding China (25:43). Finally, we look at the Pray for China cities of the week (40:24), and I talk about the time I was taken in for “spying” on North Korea 22 years ago this summer (52:15).

Wang Yi Calls Xi Jinping to Repent and Trust in Christ

https://chinacall.substack.com/p/if-xi-jinping-does-not-repent-he

China’s Thin-Skinned Dictator and Winnie the Pooh

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/world/chinese-president-xi-jinping-winnie-the-pooh-taiwan-b1073403.html

https://uhlibraries.pressbooks.pub/chin3343sp23/chapter/xijinpingwinniethepooh/

https://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/long-reads/article/3043614/xi-jinping-winnie-pooh-and-canadian-origins-bear

https://www.history.com/articles/the-true-story-of-the-real-life-winnie-the-pooh

The Memoirs of William Milne (200th Anniversary Edition!)

https://a.co/d/bALLtAf

Trump: Xi is Very Hard to Deal With

https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/114623632387180206

https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/114631295762726849

Pray for China (June 8-14)

https://chinacall.substack.com/p/pray-for-china-june-8-14-2025

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Welcome to this very special NBA Finals edition of the China Compass Podcast, possibly the first all-sports episode on the Fight Laugh Feast Network!

Welcome to another special episode in the weekly “Prison Pulpit” series on the China Compass podcast! I'm your China travel guide, Missionary Ben, currently in Moscow, Idaho. Follow me on X (@chinaadventures) where I post daily reminders to pray for China (PrayforChina.us). To learn more about our ministry endeavors or get one of my missionary biographies, visit www.PrayGiveGo.us!

Why the Prison Pulpit?

I want to remind you once again why I do this weekly Prison Pulpit series: to encourage you to pray for Pastor Wang Yi (and others like him) as Hebrews 13:3 teaches us, by sharing from his own words and sermons, as well as many stories and sermons from the late Richard Wurmbrand.

Pastor Wang Yi’s Prayer for the (Chinese) Nation

https://www.wangyilibrary.org/en/post/a-prayer-for-the-nation

Bonus: If Xi Jinping Does Not Repent, He Will Perish!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eWuv55YgKjY

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Welcome to China Compass on the Fight Laugh Feast Network! I'm your China travel guide, Missionary Ben, coming to you from the Pacific Northwest! Follow me on Twitter/X (@chinaadventures) where I post daily reminders to pray for China (PrayforChina.us). X is also the best way to contact me. Just follow and either tag me in a message or send a DM.

After discussing Trump’s China trade truce trouble and potential Chinese student deportations (1:00), I talk a bit about the Uyghur diaspora’s problems with Chinese spies and the mechanism China has used to control them for many decades (24:36). Lastly, we cover this week’s Chinese cities to pray for (34:27), followed by a couple of new stories about playing “hide ‘n seek” with the Chinese police 10 years ago this week (40:42).

Trump's China Truce Not Going So Well

https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/114596705340367716

https://www.cnn.com/2025/05/29/china/china-us-truce-chips-student-visa-intl-hnk

https://www.cnn.com/2025/05/29/politics/us-china-trade-talk-frustration

Uyghurs welcome Turkey's crackdown on Chinese spy ring

https://asia.nikkei.com/Politics/International-relations/Uyghurs-welcome-Turkey-s-crackdown-on-Chinese-spy-ring

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xinjiang_Production_and_Construction_Corps

Pray for China (June 1-7)

https://chinacall.substack.com/p/pray-for-china-june-1-7-2025

Hide ‘N Seek with the Chinese Police (10 Years Ago This Week)

Hezheng (June 1, 2015) - Teammates Arrested

Linxia (June 5, 2015) - Grocery Store/Van Incident

Unbeaten

Confronting the Lies (and Laughter) of the Chinese Communist Police

The story of my arrest, interrogation, and deportation from China in 2018: Unbeaten.vip

Please follow/subscribe to China Compass and leave a review on your favorite platform. Also check out my books and everything else we’re involved in @ PrayGiveGo.us. Luke 10, Verse 2!

Welcome to another special episode in the weekly “Prison Pulpit” series on the China Compass podcast! I'm your China travel guide, Missionary Ben, back from Asia. You can follow me on X (@chinaadventures) where I post daily reminders to pray for China (PrayforChina.us). To learn more about our ministry endeavors or get one of the missionary biographies I’ve published, visit www.PrayGiveGo.us!

Why the Prison Pulpit?

I want to remind you once again why I do this weekly Prison Pulpit series: to encourage you to pray for Pastor Wang Yi (and others like him) as Hebrews 13:3 teaches us, by sharing from his own words and sermons, as well as many stories and sermons from the late Richard Wurmbrand.

Bucharest Below!

Speaking of Wurmbrand, just a couple hours after posting last week’s episode of the Prison Pulpit, my flight from Oman to London took me directly over Iraq (dry and desolate), Turkey (green and gorgeous), and then after crossing the Black Sea, Bucharest, Romania, where Richard Wurmbrand was from, and where he was arrested and spent years in solitary confinement!

I’ve been to Bucharest once, even meeting a few folks who KNEW Wurmbrand, but I don’t know the city well enough to locate anything in particular from the sky. However, it was fascinating nonetheless!

Unbeaten.vip

Also, and I promise this is the last time I’ll mention this until NEXT year, Sunday, May 25, was the anniversary of my arrest and interrogation seven years ago…UNBEATEN.VIP!

May 25, 2018: 21 Japanese detained in China likely targeted in crackdown on missionaries

https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy-defence/article/2147864/21-japanese-detained-china-may-have-been-targeted

What Will You Do In the Time of Testing?

https://chinacall.substack.com/p/what-will-you-do-in-the-time-of-testing

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I'm still traveling (6 countries in 6 days), so today's show is a mashup of two shorter bonus episodes I recorded exactly one year ago.

The first discusses John G. Paton on his birthday (May 24, 1824), as well as a little bit about his contemporary Hudson Taylor.

In the second, I spill the beans about the day I was deported from NW China in 2018.

Note, these have been lightly edited from the old originals, but some 2024 or otherwise time-bound references are sure to remain. My apologies in advance.

Part I: The Autobiography of John G. Paton - JohnGPaton.com

Part II: Deportation Day - Unbeaten.vip

Here's the link to the full text version of Chapter Seven from my book, which I also mentioned:

https://chinacall.substack.com/p/deportation-day-may-25-2018

Unbeaten: Confronting the Lies (and Laughter) of the Chinese Communist Police

This is the story of my arrest, interrogation, and deportation from China in 2018: Unbeaten.vip

Please follow/subscribe to China Compass and leave a review on your favorite platform. Also check out my books and everything else we’re involved in @ PrayGiveGo.us. Luke 10, Verse 2!

Welcome to this special episode of the China Compass Podcast, #31 in the weekly “Prison Pulpit” series! I'm your China travel guide, Missionary Ben. You can follow me on X (@chinaadventures) where I post daily reminders to pray for China (PrayforChina.us). To learn more about our ministry endeavors or get one of the missionary biographies I’ve published, visit www.PrayGiveGo.us!

I want to begin again by reminding you why I started this weekly China Compass series: to encourage you to pray for Pastor Wang Yi (and others like him) as Hebrews 13:3 teaches us, by sharing from his own words and sermons. (We’ve also learned a lot from Richard Wurmbrand.)

This month is the anniversary of my arrest and interrogation seven years ago…UNBEATEN.VIP!

I recorded last week's episode in Malaysia, discussing the difficult and potentially dangerous situation for Christians in Malaysia. Today (tonight) I’m on a long layover in Muscat, the capital of the Sultanate of Oman, SE of Dubai, and just across the Sea of Oman south of Iran.

Christianity and Persecution in Oman

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christianity_in_Oman

https://www.opendoorsus.org/en-US/persecution/countries/oman/

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oman

Samuel Zwemer on Borden of Yale (BordenofYale.com)

I never saw anyone come to Egypt with eyes more open to see the kingdom of God. Others come to see the mummies, study history, or join the crowds of tourists flocking to the pyramids, never once lifting their eyes to see the fields “ripe for harvest” (John 4:35). Borden had not even been in Cairo two weeks before he mobilized the seminary students to attempt a door to door outreach, hoping to give away Christian literature to the whole city of nearly a million people.

Here was a man built like an athlete, with the mind of a scholar and theologian in regard to God’s truth, and the heart of a little child, full of faith and love. He was so kind in his visits to our own home that our children would bounce upon his knee as if they had known him for years.

Knowing that he would have to learn Chinese eventually, he came to Cairo to become fluent in Arabic first. Here was a young man who deliberately set out to learn not one but two of the most difficult languages in the world, before diving into his life’s calling of declaring the unsearchable riches of Christ to China’s Muslims.

Dr. Samuel Zwemer (1867–1952)

Zwemer Overview: https://medium.com/@derekmhopper/samuel-zwemer-and-his-arabian-mission-1891-1913-89242aa0bdf

Zwemer’s Book, The Law of Apostasy in Islam: https://archive.org/details/lawofapostasyini00zwem

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Today I first discuss Trump’s recent comments about China “opening up” to the US (1:21). Next, I share my tweet that made the Steve Deace show Wednesday, critiquing their response (15:41). Last, we finish up with our weekly Pray for China segment, including a few new stories and book recommendations (31:31).

Welcome to China Compass on the Fight Laugh Feast Network! I'm your China travel guide, Missionary Ben, coming to you today (almost live?) from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia! Follow me on Twitter/X (@chinaadventures) where I post daily reminders to pray for China (PrayforChina.us). X is also the best way to contact me. Just follow and either tag me in a message or send a DM.

Trump says China agrees to 'fully' open country's markets to US businesses

China has agreed to "open itself up to American business" according to Pres. Donald Trump.

The arrangement was arguably the most significant development stemming from the trade negotiations, Trump told reporters Monday at the White House. Plans have yet to be finalized and "papered," but Trump said that China is on board with the agreement.

"The biggest thing to me is the opening up," Trump told reporters Monday. "It would be, I think it would be fantastic for our businesses if we could go in and compete with China. It would be a lot of jobs for China. . .I think it's maybe the most important thing to happen, because if you think about it, we opened up our country to China," Trump said. "They come. We don't. I mean, they have very few restrictions, and they didn't open their country to us, never made sense to them. It's not fair. And they've agreed to open China fully open…and I think it's going to be fantastic."

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-says-china-agrees-fully-open-countrys-markets-us-businesses

https://www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/2025/05/fact-sheet-president-donald-j-trump-secures-a-historic-trade-win-for-the-united-states/

China Compass on the Steve Deace Show (5-14-25, 1:23:40-1:28:10)

“I think we agreed to negotiate with China just a bit too soon. If the tariffs were truly hitting the Commies harder than us, not sure why we couldn't have let them sweat at least long enough for one (fully-tariffed) ship to cross the Pacific. Let them get desperate.”

https://x.com/chinaadventures/status/1922489116186280321?t=bkjrWaugvcFsj11wBDEADA&s=19

Unbeaten (My Arrest, Interrogation, and Deportation from China): Unbeaten.vip

Pray for China (May 17-23): https://chinacall.substack.com/p/pray-for-china-may-17-23-2025

The Memoirs of William Milne (200th Anniversary Edition!): https://a.co/d/bALLtAf

Please follow/subscribe to China Compass and leave a review on your favorite platform. Also check out my books and everything else we’re involved in @ PrayGiveGo.us. Luke 10, Verse 2!