I suspect that too. I don't understand how anyone could be surprised if it does turn out that way. After all, all of the main characters here were complicit in Chinagate. If you'd betray your country for one foreign power, why not another?
All the years we were railing about the Treasonous Clinton administration, apparently were mild to what was really happening.
I've never thought that Al-Qaeda and Chinese espionage were completely unrelated. Mind you, I have no evidence whatsoever.