The indictment is an attempt to deflect fallout from Snowden’s treason, says Julian Zelizer. While the US might believe that committing espionage for the benefit of private companies is wrong, that is a moral judgment that is rare. The only tangible impact to come out of this is that the five Chinese people will attend the Black Hat conference. Zelizer says the US is shirking the much more difficult political responsibility of imposing trade sanctions on the companies that receive and market the stolen technologies, as well as their governments.”]
Source: https://www.darkreading.com/attacks-breaches/indicting-chinese-military-officers-is-a-huge-mistake