Questions about WELS and Asia

Read this eye-opening report on our buddies, the Chinese Communists.

Anonymous has left a new comment on your post "ELS and WELS Remember the Tiananmen Square Slaught...":

"Graduates without jobs at The Sausage Factory are told to go teach English in Red China if they want jobs."

Actually, pastors with jobs also clamor for $$ to take excursions to China as well.

Case in point, read Mark Cordes' account of teaching "all three languages from Genesis 1" to Chinese students for 2 weeks (http://www.nycrossofchrist.org/home/140001589/140001589/Mission%20Connection%20Article.pdf) with Leon Piepenbrink and his Babpist nephew.

My three questions are:

1. Don't we already have a seminary in Hong Kong, missionaries with Chinese language skills in Taiwan, and Friends of China and Kingdom Workers already working in China? Why does Piepenbrink need to accumlate more vacation pictures and rack up more frequent flier miles? Who is paying for his jet-set ministry?

2. Did the WELS coffers purchase his Babpist (sic - should be Babtist - the errant spelling implies an angry Babtist) nephew's plane ticket? His nephew is "also serving as interim minister for Palo Verde Baptist Church." (http://www.tucsoncitizen.com/daily/local/8260.php)

3. How much money was spent with the result that "By the end of our two weeks,some who had requested triple the hours of instruction could pick out several Hebrew words and explain them"? If this minimal instruction is all that is required for an all-expenses paid trip to China, where do I sign up?

4. Why is Piepenbrink allowed to set up ministry posts in Thailand without informing the WELS missionaries already working in Thailand? (http://www.hmongministry.net/missionworkinthailand.html) Why spend the $$ to fly all the way to South East Asia when we ALREADY HAVE MISSIONARIES THERE?

5. Who is allowing this insanity to continue?