Yeah I was just gonna say, I went to Beijing for the first time, and as I was leaving I thought to myself, "well the line is long and insanely compacted (people crowding forward into every open nook and cranny within the cordon), but at least it's not going to have the American bullshit".
And I was right in the sense that they don't make you take your shoes off or put you through the naked photo machine. However, the inconspicuous bag inspector literally disassembled my entire backpack, dumped everything out on the table in the most disorganized fashion possible, then literally walked away without saying a word leaving me 10 minutes to repack everything. That and they took away my post-security water on the jetway boarding the plane (apparently they only do this on US-bound flights though).