The issue with this kind of public enforcement is China quite frankly could care less about the plaintiff. They got the info they required, the chinese way of

The issue with this kind of public enforcement is China quite frankly could care less about the plaintiff. They got the info they required, the chinese way of thinking is that these foreign assets are largely expendable and easily replacible. Sanctions and other forms of proactive and offensive protection of these assets is the only way to curb this kind of espionage. This kind of counter-intelligence and sabotage was actually one of the only things Reagan got right during his presidency. Something worth reading is the operation, in which the US realized Russians were attempting to steal information to automate operation of a newly constructed natural gas pipeline through Siberia. Ironically, the US contacted the Canadians and found a willing oil and gas engineering firm to take the bait and provide "functional" code and licensed tech to the soviets. The soviets were smitten with what they thought was genuine information and tech - however, shortly after one of the largest non-nuclear explosions in history occurred when the pipeline failed in the middle of Siberia. (take what you will from this in regards to the recent Nordstream explosion) The gist here - is you have to erode trust in data stolen from your country to a deadly extent. As soon as China realizes that 40% of their stolen "intelligence" is useless or something designed to fail... they'll think twice about stealing. Also, just make it harder for people with a clear past linking them to the PLA to you know... run important infrastructure. Source here - https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/2004/02/27/reagan-approved-plan-to-sabotage-soviets/a9184eff-47fd-402e-beb2-63970851e130/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/2004/02/27/r...