Very poor analysis. China already has a domestic spy, and secret police apparatus in every corner to keep just any, but highest seniority officials on the leash, not only ones making dissident faction, or not.
I cannot imagine that anybody seriously researching China never knew of that.
And I greatly doubt that just any benefit could've been extracted by US spies from getting hand on near 99% Chinese officials who don't know anything, and don't decide anything.
China's political elite is just few hundred people, and they were always surveilled by the state ceaselessly.
I cannot imagine that anybody seriously researching China never knew of that.
And I greatly doubt that just any benefit could've been extracted by US spies from getting hand on near 99% Chinese officials who don't know anything, and don't decide anything.
China's political elite is just few hundred people, and they were always surveilled by the state ceaselessly.