No, they are just bad enough to get caught often enough. The USA does the same thing probably, but they are much more careful about it.

It doesn’t help that much of China’s economy is state owned, so even someone doing some espionage for a state owned enterprise would be rightfully called state sponsored.

I sure hope so, China has taken one of the least wise and darker paths these past centuries.

When you make obviously stupid decisions that lead to mass canibalsim like China, then you’re not wise imo.

https://www.rfa.org/english/news/china/cannibalism-112220131...

Also murdering your own citizens to harvest their organs, pretty bad in my imo too. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organ_harvesting_from_Falun_...

You can have a very low view of the Chinese Communist Party while being many things that Trump isn't, like a fierce advocate for liberal democracy and human rights and the rule of law.

you saying this is short sighted and distracts from real issues such as genocide and massive human rights violations happening around the world right now.

There would really be no incentive for China to report it. Not letting your opponent know that you know has value.

Actually I have an unpopular opinion in regards to your question on competency. The computing industry as a whole over the years has grown and morphed to the point that there’s a high level of ineptitude when it comes to basic administration of networks, servers, and services. Basic concepts of not sharing passwords, locking networks down, using TLS, least privileged access, and so much more aren’t practiced as much as they may have been (well if at all). I’m sure there are plenty of companies and teams that do good things but I’ve seen now at a few companies I’ve worked, lax attitude and poor response to incidents that I believe has made it scary easy for a bad actor to gain access to things they shouldn’t.