It&#x27;s not really the spying that bothers people. Nearly every country is constantly spying on every other country. What is different is that Chinese hacking goes beyond snooping for national security reasons in a few ways.<p>They actively engage in corporate espionage (in a massive way) to aid their homegrown companies and directly harm US companies. As far as we know, the NSA isn&#x27;t stealing trade secrets from BMW and giving them to GM.<p>They directly attack civilians for hosting content they don&#x27;t like, e.g., the recent DDoS attack on github.