Like any other contry on earch, China has it's own spy agencies, and they train spies. The Fairy-tale is about a huge web of ordinary Chinese individuals, who are forced into spy work, and who constitute a "biggest spy network in the US".
By reading the Transcript of May 19, 1994 CBS Evening News about Chinese spies, one is fed of the following. One, there is a biggest Chinese spy network in the US; two, the network consists of only ethnic Chinese; three, these Chinese are ordinary people, and who are forced into spying; four, they are not spying now, they will spy in the future!
These are the fairy-tales we are talking about. The source of which mostly from a self-proclaimed "analyst" of China affairs, Mr. Eftimiades, Nicholas. The following are some reviews of his book by news media.