Maybe it shouldn't have come as a surprise, but the American three letter agencies are asleep at the wheel again. While keeping themselves busy with fighting "the red menace", the real red menace quietly crept upon us. The bureaus did not seem to have even comprehended the Chinese military and industrial espionage tactics, which in addition to "traditional" information buying and blackmail, also included gathering small bits of seemingly unimportant information from exchange students to the USA (and many other countries), persons of Chinese heritage and from any approachable foreign visitor in China and using it to understand the bigger picture. This "thousand grain of sands" tactics fits well into the justification of simply helping the poor motherland to improve its citizens (economical) well being. Of course, that FBI personnel was having sex with the Chinese assets they were supposed to monitor, probably didn't help either ...