It seems that the government(s) make a lot of noise about how valiantly they pursue these 'dangerous' hackers, but they won't go near the state sponsored industrial espionage that appears to be coming out of China. Why are we so proud of persecuting our own citizens while we ignore much more damaging actions carried out by another government?
Probably because it's not a one sided affair and both sides in a (China/US) confrontation have a lot of leverage over each other so a conflict is not in the interest of either party...