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>takes your phone or laptop to another room, the safe bet is to consider that device compromised if it’s brought back later, and to immediately procure new devices in-region, if possible

Isn't an easy solution to this is to have your "laptop" just have a generic OS install, but have your real machine a bootable USB or SD?

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Depending on your threat model, if the hardware is sufficiently compromised, no amount of software gymnastics will keep you safe.

To add an example a hardware keylogger would still capture keystrokes in your USB boot OS.

I read once that those traveling overseas should always copy and paste in passwords rather than typing - basically assuming that your machine has been compromised with a software or hardware keylogger.

No that could be searches aswell. The correct solution is having all data online with passwords to it in your head and an empty device

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