Brian May wrote:
IIRC for the beijing olympic games, BHP gave their people[0] shiny new thinkpads to take to China, instead of taking their existing corporate laptops. I heard ASIO (WTF? Not ASIS or DFAT?) told them to expect Chinese intelligence to take laptops out of hotel safes, dd them, then put them back. I don't think they do it for normal visits to e.g. Surinam and South Africa, tho.
[...] I wouldn't take any sensitive information on computer/phone/tablet overseas, even encrypted, unless I absolutely had to.
In case that's not obvious, that was (AIUI) BHP's point. You're going there to have fun, not do deals, so your corporate secrets stay at home on your "real" work laptop. This one is just for skyping to your family or whatever normal people do.