It’s a little Bradley Manning kind of world out there. Traitors are a dime a dozen. Nobody is “in charge”. Everything is fair game. Freedom, Privacy, Security, Liberty, everything! Whatever can make you a quick buck and get you your “15 minutes”.
It's a regular industry for foriegn nationals: get a paycheck here working for a defense contractor and a paycheck back home for passing along info. It's not just the PRC. We had contractors from the UAE, Pakistan, Jordan, and Russia doing it too. The guy from Jordan got caught after he falsified his wife's info: he had to because she was a known Jordanian intelligence agent. This guy had a TS with poly and worked with sensitive material for at least a year. Last I heard he was fighting deportation.