Welcome to the China Compass Podcast (from Lima, Peru)! Today, I start by looking at China's "take" on the assassination attempt on former president Trump, and how the Commies use the news for their own propaganda purposes...

A nation under strain: What the Trump assassination attempt reveals about America

https://www.chinadaily.com.cn/a/202407/16/WS669660aea31095c51c50e67b.html

Trump T-shirts that flooded Chinese retail sites after the shooting have disappeared

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/trump-assassination-attempt-shooting-china-t-shirts-disappear-online-rcna162042

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Today's featured province is Guangdong (aka, Canton). After a quick overview of this heavily populated region, it's story time. I talk about the time I was almost robbed with a pair of scissors while taking a midnight nap, my first experience with Chinese beggars, and my first encounter with the Chinese police, that almost stopped my career in China even before it got started. 

*Unbeaten is my story of being arrested, interrogated and deported from China in 2018: www.Unbeaten.vip

Finally, we tackle some new China Compass Q&A, followed by William Borden's account of the Guangdong "boat people" in 1904.

*Borden of Yale is a classic missionary biography written by Hudson Taylor's DIL: www.BordenofYale.com