So you are saying China did not have spy and did not try to influence foreign power?
Because I can tell you this, every country did that. At this day and age, information is king, and what better than getting latest information at a foreign country that can potentially benefit you? That's being involve in the making of such information.
And being a democratic system, it is very easy to infiltrate into the system by installing candidate. I don't know how "Crazy" do you think this is, but it could be by any chance true. And this is not something not imaginable