Chinese Bridges Falling Down, Two Meals for $1 + More Wacky China News

Welcome to China Compass on the Fight Laugh Feast Network! I'm your China travel guide, Missionary Ben. Follow me on Twitter/X (@chinaadventures) 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! During the past couple of weeks, I’ve been podcasting from Turkey. Well, we just landed back in Malaysia this morning and it’s good to be back at my own little desk. Today I want to run through a half dozen or so rando Chinese news articles that I stumbled across this week, mostly in the vein of “Not the Bee”. In other words, crazy true stories that sound almost like satire: Chinese Bridges Falling Down https://www.theblaze.com/return/china-bridge-collapse-engineer-experts Oldest Grapevine in the World in… Tibet? https://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2025/11/11/Guinness-World-Records-Tibet-grapevine/5031762871976/ Himalayan Mountain Goats Running Wild in… South Africa? https://www.getaway.co.za/travel-news/look-himalayan-tahrs-spotted-on-table-mountain-cliffs/ China Invented Picnics https://www.ft.com/content/85c5d51a-5a92-4855-bbfc-2be79a6abee3 Cheap Chinese: Two Meals for $1 https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx2pvlvdve7o Beijing's Deflation Dilemma https://www.yahoo.com/news/beijings-deflation-dilemma-falling-prices-030401849.html Memoirs of a Beijing Delivery Dude https://www.economist.com/culture/2025/11/06/what-a-hit-memoir-reveals-about-work-in-china Typical Chinese School Day https://fortune.com/2025/11/11/china-us-rivarly-in-the-classroom-longer-days-ai-race-trump-shifts-tone/ Commie-World Problems: Dictators Get Lonely https://www.newsweek.com/xi-jinping-getting-lonely-at-the-top-after-chinas-new-purge-10887454   Now let's take a look at this coming week's Pray for China (PrayforChina.us) cities… Pray for China (Nov 17-23): https://chinacall.substack.com/p/pray-for-china-nov-17-23-2025   Subscribe to China Compass and leave a review on your favorite podcast platform! Follow me on X (@chinaadventures) and send any questions or comments to (bfwesten at gmail dot com). You can find everything else, including my books, at PrayGiveGo.us! Luke 10, verse 2, the harvest is plentiful but the workers are few. Talk again soon!