>... please focus on the scale of the accusations against the CCP, as well as consensus global norms of the current era

There is no consensus on 'norms' for cyber-espionage and every country is operating the the gray-areas. There is no red-line that defines what an act of war is. It wasn't long ago that the NSA was listening to Angela Merkel's phone calls; this is far more aggressive than industrial espionage, in my book.

Every nation does industrial espionage - in the "national interest"