>then why leak the affairs

Allows the influence of selection of next CEO that is more aligned with long term Chinese goals. Or punishment for not going along with the plan.

Im not much for conspiracy theories, but if you think about it, in the state that US is in, there is absolutely zero chance US will do anything retaliatory to China if they do spy shit on US soil. China is basically free to play spy games. My guess is that they have their fingers in Anthropic, Amazon, OpenAI, SpaceX, and AMD, and probably other agents within NVIDIA in high places.

Their game is basically rearrange the pieces so eventually China becomes the world number one superpower, while keeping the status quo as much as possible