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Are you sure? The NSA runs a global surveillance program, monitoring/copying most of the internet traffic, and industrial espionage (against all non-US states & companies, allies or not) is a stated goal of this program.

I don't know how well-funded the chinese IP theft program is, but I doubt it's much larger.

Some proven cases of economic espionage by the NSA: (and these were even against allies)

https://www.economist.com/europe/2015/06/27/i-spy-you-spy

https://www.globalresearch.ca/the-nsa-scandal-economic-espio...

> we are in a state of law

Laws are selectively applied all the time, juries can nullify written laws, prosecutors can make plea deals, cities can choose to not enforce federal laws, and a whole bunch of anti-terrorism laws can be used to hold people in quasi-legal detention centers. What the heck is a state of law?

Technically, she got arrested because the UZS is of the opinion that she broke one of their laws. I'd wager she'd get released because Trump has suggested that the move is (or could be used for) political leverage (whether that's true or not), or because Canada doesn't have the same laws and so we might not extradite.