There's a significant difference in the USA spending the money developing the capabilities versus actually using them, and using them on the scale that China is

There's a significant difference in the USA spending the money developing the capabilities versus actually using them, and using them on the scale that China is. If nothing else China seems to being brazen about the attacks - whereas international espionage largely remains hidden and deniable, at least to the public at large. If US companies were routinely catching Russians trying to sneak onto their premises the reaction would be somewhat different.