But honestly, how could he not know the real deal about what is happening to Chinese Christians?
The truth about what is going on there is well-known.
He says it was better than EXPECTED.
A tour of foreigner churches, his hosts telling him these are house churches, would do that. Had Luis been able to ask a few questions it would have blown the cover, but I doubt he got to hear anything more than a few rousing choruses of "Blessed Assurance" and the like.