China always intended to become the global hegemon as the United States was gutted from the inside. Those who aided and abetted China’s economic and technological gains at the expense of the West were no doubt handsomely rewarded in the present. They, and their descendants after them, we likely also promised permanent positions in the governance (subjugation) of the population of China’s vassal states - the Chinese are very conscious of lineage.
The consequences for those that participated must be the most severe punishments ever meted out in the history of the United States.