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The US does not engage in corporate, economic hacking to steal technology or trade secrets. At most, even if (BIG IF) the allegation by Snowden were true, the spying was for national security either against terrorism or about China military expansion.
In reverse, China routinely steals US intellectual properties, trade secrets, and snoops on various US organizations for other economically significant confidential information.
The news world and laypersons don't care the difference. Snowden provided the Chinese a perfect smokescreen to derail the US effort to confront China during the Obama-Xi JinPing summit. If he didn't get any compensation from the Chinese, it would be stupid of him. What is worse than a traitor is a stupid traitor who didn't get a dime.
This is a same as if a neighbor installs a security camera on his fence to make sure the neighbor's dog doesn't stray into his yard. The neighbor installs secret camera in his house, bedrooms, hacks into his bank account... and says: you spy on me and so, why do you accuse me of spying on you?
They are not the same.
The Chinese cyberhacking military unit may get trade secrets from Cisco or Apple for examples. They would give them to Huawei. The US doesn't spy on Huawei to give the info to US corporations.