No Joke: Chinese Buddhist “Cult” Sponsors Babylon Bee Article│Also: Chinese Crypto, Tibetan Antelope Robots, Chinese PB&J ? (And More) [China Compass]
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🗓️ 16 August 2025
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
After a brief intro, I jump into the four (very random) China stories of the week (1:25), followed by a deep dive into how the Babylon Bee recently (no joke) promoted Falun Gong, a Chinese Buddhist cult (23:31). For the final five or so minutes, I go through all of the Pray for China cities to "remember" this week. (52:12).
Welcome to China Compass on the Fight Laugh Feast Network! I'm your China travel guide, Missionary Ben. Follow me (@chinaadventures) on Twitter/X where I post new/unique Chinese city prayer profiles every single day. Also, you can email me any questions or comments (bfwesten at gmail dot com) and find everything else, including my books, at PrayGiveGo.us!
Pray for China places of the week (Follow @chinaadventures to see which city daily)
https://chinacall.substack.com/p/pray-for-china-aug-17-23-2025
Robot Antelopes in Tibet
China's Strategic Rare Earth Move (50 Years Ago!)
All the Peanut Butter in China?
https://www.visualcapitalist.com/cp/charted-peanut-butter-consumption-per-capita-by-country/
Hong Kong to be China's Crypto Hub
https://cointelegraph.com/news/china-crypto-liquidation-plans-reveal-its-grand-strategy
The Bee: 10 Undeniable Reasons Communist China Is Way Better Than America
https://babylonbee.com/news/10-undeniable-reasons-communist-china-is-way-better-than-america
Not ‘da Bee: Here’s the Falun Gong Streaming Platform That Sponsored the Bee Article
https://www.ganjingworld.com/tag/Falun%20Dafa/1699198512775
More About Falun Gong
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falun_Gong
https://www.ucanews.com/news/falun-gongs-secrets-for-surviving-in-china/85660
Final Thoughts on Falun Gong:
- Not a typical cult, but close (ie, mysterious god-like leader, etc)
- Not Christian at all, but has some political/practical overlap (right wing, anti-big gov)
- Better organized than Christians (calls, vpns, hackers, promotions)
Follow or subscribe to China Compass and leave a review on your favorite podcast platform. And don’t forget: Follow @chinaadventures on X, and find everything else @ PrayGiveGo.us.
Luke 10, verse 2, the harvest is plentiful but the workers are few. Talk to you again soon!
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the last year |
| 0:04.0 | than the last year |
| 0:06.0 | Welcome to China Compass on the Fight Laugh Feast Network. |
| 0:23.0 | I'm your China Travel Guide, missionary bin. |
| 0:26.5 | You can follow me on TwitterX at China Adventures, |
| 0:30.2 | where I post new and unique daily reminders to pray for China, |
| 0:35.3 | new city profiles every single day. |
| 0:37.3 | You can also email me any questions |
| 0:39.1 | or comments. BF Weston at gmail.com. Anything you want to know about or are concerned about or |
| 0:46.1 | have any comments about. I got another couple messages this week. You can find everything else we are |
| 0:52.3 | working on and doing and involved in, including some books that we're helping to publish, old missionary biographies especially. |
| 0:58.0 | Everything like that is available at pray give go.us. |
| 1:02.0 | Pray give go.us. |
| 1:03.0 | I'm still fighting the remnants of a cold that I got like two and a half weeks ago. |
| 1:08.0 | So my voice is still cracking a bit and I'm having to pause every now and then |
| 1:12.6 | to cough and to clear my throat. And so bear with me as that continues here. I don't know what kind of |
| 1:19.5 | cold virus I got here in Asia. We can only imagine, I guess you could say. Today I want to do something |
| 1:26.2 | different than I haven't done in a while |
| 1:28.1 | is I've got a lot of different smaller things to mention and articles to mention related to |
| 1:33.8 | China, very, very scattered, nothing really on one particular topic all along. You'll notice that |
| 1:40.8 | really quickly as we get started here in just a moment. The first article that I |
| 1:46.1 | have for you today, just this popped up on the news here in South Asia. I'm in Malaysia. And this is |
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