Should We Want More (Or Less) Chinese Students in America? │Family Vacay in China? [China Compass]
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4.6 • 949 Ratings
🗓️ 14 June 2025
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
Welcome to China Compass on the Fight Laugh Feast Network! I'm your China travel guide, Missionary Ben, back in OKC, but packing for our move to Malaysia this week! Follow me on X (@chinaadventures) where I post daily reminders to pray for China. X is also the best way to contact me. Just follow and send a DM. You can also email me @ bfwesten at gmail dot com
After reintroducing myself and giving my China bonafides (0:40), I talk all about why Chinese students should or shouldn’t study in the USA (5:15). Next, we look at the Pray for China cities of the week (31:34), followed by a listener letter about possibly visiting China (44:25).
Who is Missionary Ben?
I haven’t done this in a long time, but every now and then I am reminded I should probably give a little bit more of my background (and my China bonafides). Now I can’t divulge very much, for security reasons, but here are the basics: moved to China at the age of 19, in the early 2000s, taught myself to speak (and read) Chinese. Lived there w/ my family til I was deported in 2018.
Unbeaten: Confronting the Lies (and Laughter) of the Chinese Communist Police
The Story of My Arrest, Interrogation, and Deportation from China (Unbeaten.vip)
Over those nearly 15 years, I set foot in every province, and visited hundreds of cities, towns, and villages. Alongside our evangelistic work, I helped manage a leather factory in a Muslim town, opened a yak burger/pizza restaurant on the Tibetan Plateau, served as a guide and Tibetan taxi driver, and taught English to elementary kids, high schoolers, and young adults.
How I Taught Myself Mandarin (And How You Can Learn Chinese Too, But Won’t)
https://chinacall.substack.com/p/how-i-taught-myself-mandarin
New Visa Policies Put America First, Not China (May 28)
Trump: CHINESE STUDENTS [HAVE] ALWAYS BEEN GOOD WITH ME! (June 11)
https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/114664632971715644
Pray for China (June 15-21)
https://chinacall.substack.com/p/pray-for-china-june-15-21-2025
China Visa Free Transit
Follow or subscribe to China Compass and leave a review on your favorite podcast platform. 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!
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to |
| 0:02.6 | Welcome to China Compass on the Fidelove on the Fight Laft Feast Network. I'm your China Travel Guide missionary |
| 0:25.1 | Ben back in OKC for a few days, but I'm packing. We're packing for our move to Malaysia |
| 0:31.3 | this coming week. You can follow me on X at China Adventures, at China Adventures on X, |
| 0:37.0 | where I post daily reminders to pray |
| 0:39.2 | for China. X is also the best way to contact me, the easiest way. If you're on X, just follow and |
| 0:44.9 | send a DM. You can also, however, email me at BF Weston. BF Weston is my pen name, BF Weston at |
| 0:52.4 | gmail.com. BFWeston at gmail.com, I had somebody email me today. |
| 0:56.8 | I might get to that email at the very end of the podcast or I might save it for another day. |
| 1:01.7 | She brings up a topic that I do want to touch on at some point. |
| 1:05.9 | Now, I haven't done this in a long time, but every now and then I'm reminded mostly by listening to the |
| 1:12.3 | podcast. They do a good job every single week of introducing themselves, giving a little bit of |
| 1:17.5 | their background and what they're involved in what they do. And I realize every week that I hear |
| 1:21.6 | their podcast, whenever I hear it, I should probably give a little bit more information about |
| 1:25.7 | my background as well and my China bona fides to be doing a podcast about China. Now, I can't divulge very much for security reasons, |
| 1:33.7 | but here are the basics. I moved to China at the age of 19, first visited when I was really |
| 1:38.9 | just 18, turned 19 in China. In the early 2000s, I taught myself to speak and read Chinese. I lived there |
| 1:46.3 | then with my family. My wife and our children were raised there. Two of them were born there |
| 1:50.5 | until I was deported from China in 2018. I've mentioned many times before my little book, |
| 1:56.4 | Unbeaten, confronting the lies and laughter of the Chinese communist police, the story of my arrest, |
| 2:02.5 | interrogation, and deportation from China. You can find my little book. If you want to learn a little |
| 2:06.6 | bit more about that period in our lives seven years ago, and also it does touch on some of the |
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