[genefromjersey]

I have a relative doing NGO "good works" in China.I'll say this carefully:my relative's mail and packages are opened as a matter of course,apartment is searched on a daily basis by bldg. mgt.,email is monitored and censored.

This is SOP for foreigners.

This relative started out as a "liberal";will probably be somewhere to the right of Rush Limbaugh once home.

[Dr. Marten]

Yes, nearly all of the mail that is sent to or from foreigners receives special "attention".

I can't testify as to the apartments being searched, but I do know that email always has an extra eye and phone conversations have an extra ear.