While I'm pretty sure China is up to some seriously shady stuff with regards to academic/corporate espionage and such. (What country isn't? Although China seem

While I'm pretty sure China is up to some seriously shady stuff with regards to academic/corporate espionage and such. (What country isn't? Although China seem especially good at it.) This seems kind of normal to destroy documents before vacating an office to prevent breaches of privacy. Our office had a big bin with a lock on it for securely shredding documents.