Originally Posted by
jiejie
For flights to the USA, TSA sets the minimum security regulations they expect to be followed. The originating country's government may set their own stricter regulations beyond that. That is exactly what China does. The Chinese wouldn't allow that Leatherman tool (or Swiss Army knife, etc.) through regular security checkpoint for ANY flight domestic or international, regardless of what the TSA thinks.
They called it a "small knife", though--it's not a knife!
If they had called it a "tool" I would have understood.