[dragonwriter]

> They don't execute these people like some other countries do.

Well, the US government doesn't have an incentive to call attention to any extradjudicial killings of foreign spies that it does the way it does when its own agents are extrajudicially killed, and less-democratic states don't need to broadcast foreign counterintelligence killings to build support for desired policies, so the information situation isn't exactly symmetric.

[bitshiftfaced]

If the US executed 30 Chinese spies, you're saying China would voluntarily suppress that information and allow the world to believe the US didn't do anything improper?