It is an excellent thing.

If I still believed in the CIA legitimately acting to defend this nation, the answer is obvious. Human intelligence is the gold standard information you can get. Signals intelligence is great, but it can't get you the kind of big wins that a well-placed informant can.

If this report is indeed true, the US has no high-quality eyes watching China as it spreads its influence into SE Asia. Remember Vietnam, the little war we fought for 10 years and 58,000 lives to try and keep communism out of there? China's got us beat, badly in a region that controls over $1 trillion of trade annually. We're blind to what the Chinese are doing. That's a big deal.

I think the greater concern here is the time frame. How did China expose these agents? They bought off US politicians (Clintons, Bidens, etc) and many of those names were betrayed/sacrificed to the Chinese going back decades. It was more than just Slick Willy letting Chinese spies walk out of Los Alamos with hard drives full of nuclear secrets. It was a systematic technology transfer and betrayal of strategic assets to the Chinese... for money. China is ascendant because communists and thieves here in the US sold out the country.

That's an okay start. Now do "judges".