Sounds more like Stazi, you know, “Internal Security” apparatchiks.
There are so many Chinese nationals studying in the US.
China has no problem recruiting spies that they would trust much more than American citizens.
Remember, Chinese nationals that spy would likely only get deported if caught, compared to American citizens that would get charged with treason and go to prison here for ever and not be subject to prisoner swaps.
Flood China with Americans and open their society up the fastest way.
If we’d done that to Cuba Castro wouldn’t have survived the 80’s.