Trade Deficit

Normally I don't read the fine print on various customs and immigration forms that need to be filled out to enter a country. However, on today's flight from Manila to Shanghai I noticed this:

Article Prohibited From Importation In Accordance With The Law of the People's Republic of China

3. Printed matter, films, photographs, gramophone records, cinematographic films, computers and other articles which are detrimental to the political, economic, cultural and moral interests of China.

Hmmm...Pretty far-reaching all-encompassing and yet intentionally vague at the same time.

I decided to take my chances with the June/July edition of FIRST THINGS, Michael Burleigh's Earthly Powers: The Clash of Religion and Politics in Europe, from the French Revolution to the Great War, and The Children of Men. Good thing I left my subversive vinyl at home.