China-US Prisoner Swap / Chongqing: Largest City in the World? / Tibetan Monk Assassins [China Compass]
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🗓️ 30 November 2024
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Welcome to China Compass on the Fight Laugh Feast Network! 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). You can also email me with any questions or comments @ bfwesten at gmail dot com. You can also find easy links to everything we are involved in @ PrayGiveGo.us!
Summary
In today’s podcast, I begin by discussing the recent US-China Prisoner Swap (5:10) and its potential implications for casual visits to China. Then I talk all about Chongqing (17:39), which turns out to have a fascinating history. Finally, we look at the fascinating life of China missionary and explorer, James Cameron (35:31), whose earthly journey ended in Chongqing in the late 1800s. (Bonus: I threw in an unplanned story near the end (49:43) about a former teammate who was nearly stabbed to death by Tibetan Assassins hired by Buddhist Monks.)
In the News: China-US Prisoner Swap
https://www.politico.com/news/2024/11/27/state-dept-china-travel-warning-downgraded-00191942
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/27/world/asia/us-china-prisoner-swap.html
Pray for China Province of the Week: Chongqing
Chongqing Municipality in central China is matched up with southeast Texas (Greater Houston) for prayer.
See which Chinese province your state is praying for @ PrayforChina.us!
Chongqing is located in the subtropics, in the transitional area between the Tibetan Plateau and the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze. Its climate features frequent monsoon conditions, often raining at night in late spring and early summer. The city's "night rain in the Ba Mountains", features in poems throughout Chinese history, including "Written on a Rainy Night" by Li Shangyin. Its territory is 470 km (290 mi) from east to west at its longest, and 450 km (280 mi) from north to south at its widest. It borders Hubei and Hunan to the east, Sichuan and Shaanxi to the north, and Guizhou to the south.
Asia Harvest overview: https://www.asiaharvest.org/china-resources/chongqing
Wikipedia profile: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chongqing
Chongqing Spicy Chicken: Lazi Ji
Crazy Tall Escalator: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huangguan_Escalator
The Rise and Fall of Bo Xilai: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bo_Xilai
James Cameron
Missionary Explorer and Tibet Trailblazer (1845-1892):
https://chinacall.substack.com/p/james-cameron
https://www.asiaharvest.org/china-resources/tibet/1880s-tibetan-work
https://omf.org/mrt-james-cameron-the-livingstone-of-china/
Resource of the Day:
UNBEATEN: Arrested, Interrogated, and Deported from China
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to China Compass on the Fight Laugh Network. I'm your China Travel Guide, Missionary Ben. You can follow me on X at China Adventures, |
| 0:25.5 | where I post daily reminders to pray for China. You can find out more about that at prayforchina. |
| 0:32.5 | Just today, I posted one of my favorite Pray for China post. |
| 0:43.0 | It was about the province called Xinjiang province in northwest China, the home of the Uyghur people. |
| 0:48.5 | And it was a particular prefecture in Xinjiang called Altai, A-L-T-A-Y. |
| 0:50.2 | It's way up in the far tip. |
| 0:55.6 | It's almost one of the one of those two furthest northern points of all of China, one in the far northwest. There's another in the far north-east. And Al-Tai Prefecture is matched up in our in our |
| 1:01.8 | prayer intercession scheme with Alaska. Alaska for prayer. Alaska, of course, in America is |
| 1:07.9 | disconnected from the mainland and far up to the north. This is about as close as you can get in the China geography. |
| 1:14.1 | And so Al-Tai Prefecture in northern Xinjiang province is matched up with Alaska for prayer. |
| 1:19.5 | Today was my post about that particular area. |
| 1:22.6 | You can find that again at China Adventures on X. |
| 1:30.1 | You can also email me with any questions or comments you might have at BFWesten at gmail.com. BF. Weston is a pen name that I use for security |
| 1:36.2 | reasons. If you want to see any of the other books that I published using that particular name |
| 1:40.2 | and learn more about our work, you can find links to all of these things at pray give go. |
| 1:45.7 | us. Pray give go.us. Like I mentioned, I do have China Post every day. I'm right at about 300 this |
| 1:54.5 | year, starting in late January. I didn't quite get started at the beginning of the year. |
| 1:58.8 | Didn't think about it really at that point. Started in late January. I had a four-day break in March where I had a car accident with my daughter, |
| 2:07.5 | and I broke my wrist really badly, and I was knocked out for almost one whole night. And so four days |
| 2:15.1 | after the accident, I was still kind of in a days, and I realized, I haven't been posting pray for China posts these last few days so I kind of |
| 2:22.1 | Sitting on the sofa you know trying to recover I started getting with one hand that worked my other hand was was broken and |
| 2:28.7 | I was able to get started again so I went and looked yesterday. I think it was and to see how how many days that I actually missed, and it was four days. So from March 14th was the last post, and then I started |
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