Folks, if you ever wondered what it takes to turn an American governor into a compliant little puppet for the Chinese Communist Party, the answer is apparently one ambitious aide, a couple million in kickbacks, and a husband who brags in Mandarin about how the new boss is “much more obedient than the old one.” Welcome to the Linda Sun show – the gift that keeps on giving to anyone who thinks our ruling class is too stupid to spot a spy when she’s literally wiring money to Beijing while rewriting the governor’s talking points.
From Cuomo’s Nightmare to Hochul’s Dream Handler
Andrew Cuomo was a lot of things – bully, groper, nursing-home grim reaper – but one thing he wasn’t, according to the CCP’s shopping list, was obedient. He gave the Chinese consulate headaches. Enter Kathy Hochul, who took over in August 2021 after Cuomo finally resigned in disgrace. Within months, Linda Sun’s husband Chris Hu was texting a PRC official: the new governor is “much more obedient than the previous one.” Translation: we own her now.
And own her they did. Sun, who rose to deputy chief of staff and then “deputy diversity officer” (because nothing says diversity like secretly working for a genocidal one-party state), had the governor’s ear, phone, schedule, and apparently her spine. While the rest of us were trying to figure out why eggs cost ten bucks, Sun was quietly turning the Executive Chamber into Beijing’s satellite office.
The Greatest Hits of Treason, New York Style
Here’s just a taste of what your tax dollars paid an undercover CCP agent to do:
- Deleted any mention of Taiwan from official Lunar New Year proclamations, then inserted glowing praise for the “motherland” dictated straight from the Chinese consulate.
- Blocked every single attempt by Taiwanese representatives to meet with New York State officials. Sorry, Taipei – Beijing says you don’t exist, and Kathy’s office agrees.
- Had Hochul’s office issue a public thank-you to Xi Jinping for his “help” during COVID – you know, the virus that started in China, was lied about by China, and killed a million Americans. Nothing says gratitude like a press release written in Beijing.
- Killed proposed statements condemning the crackdown in Hong Kong and the Uyghur genocide because, hey, somebody might get offended in the consulate.
- Arranged covert meetings between PRC officials and Hochul’s top staff, all while making sure nobody in Albany filed the paperwork that would have exposed the whole game.
All of this while Sun and her husband were pocketing millions in “consulting fees” from CCP-linked businessmen, buying a $4.1 million mansion in Long Island, a $3.5 million condo in Hawaii (condo, hell – it’s practically a resort), a 2024 Ferrari Roma, and enough Nanjing salted duck to choke a panda. The chef who cooked the duck? Paid for by the same Chinese promoter who wired the millions. You can’t make this up. Actually, they did.
Making America Less Safe, One Deleted Taiwan Reference at a Time
This wasn’t just grift. This was strategic sabotage dressed up as diversity hiring. Every time Sun scrubbed Taiwan from an official document, she helped normalize Beijing’s claim that the island is nothing more than a rogue province waiting to be swallowed. Every time she killed a statement about Uyghur slave camps, she gave Xi moral cover. Every time she funneled secret meetings and talking points into Hochul’s office, she advanced the CCP’s goal of turning American institutions into cheerleaders for tyranny.
And it worked – because nobody noticed until the FBI finally kicked in the door of that $4 million money-laundering palace in September 2024. By then the damage was done. A foreign adversary had a direct back channel to a major American governor for years, and the only thing standing between Xi Jinping and total script approval was Linda Sun’s manicure schedule.
The America First Takeaway
Here’s the punchline: this happened in a deep-blue state run by Democrats who lecture the rest of us about Russian interference while apparently rolling out the red carpet for the actual Chinese Communist Party. If a mid-level aide can buy a governor’s foreign policy for the price of a sports car and some poultry, imagine what billion-dollar influence operations are doing at the federal level.
We don’t need another blue-ribbon commission. We need mass deportations of CCP agents, a total ban on Chinese money in American politics, and governors who don’t need a translator to understand that “no” is a complete sentence when Beijing calls.
Until then, congratulations, New York. You’ve got the most obedient governor money can buy – and Beijing picked up the tab.