When the type 094 sails, the US Navy will know the name of the captain, his home town and the names of his children.
Seawolf Bait.....Yeah, baby!
As far as I am aware, the Chinese have been far more successful at intelligence activities against us than we have been against them.
I am hoping that my awareness is far below the reality, but cases like Larry Wu-Tai Chin aren't encouraging. He spied against us for over 30 years before we found out -- and we only found him because we turned his Chinese handler Ou Quiming.
The US will know everything about the captain of this boat & probably bout his mother in law as well!! -but the real significance of this development is that China has/will have a theoritically unreachable ICBM launchpad.The Type-094 doesn't need to venture far out of Chinese's waters to unload it's 16 ICBMs which can all hit the US East Coast & also places like India.This would make it far easier for the PLAN to protect with it's Kilo class D/Es & Type-093 class N-attack subs & also it's enermous surface fleet & aircover which would figure in the USN's thinking.The existing Xia class boat is pathetically loud & carries IRBMs-hence it needs to enter US waters to even have theoritical chance of launching it's Jl-1s & it would be dead meat weeks before that.If & when the EU lift's it's arms embargo on the PRC(which is likely to be soon),you can see French,Italian & German companies que up to upgrade this boat's sensors/electronics.