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Lying and misleading these administrations, breaking our ethics rules, and even forging my signature on documents. But even more importantly, this is a betrayal of New Yorkers and the American people,
Hochul said during a Manhattan press conference on Wednesday Further, the letter drafted by Sun for [the Chinese consul official] was signed by hand with a falsified version
Sun had relied on language from a previously authorized invitation letter for a delegation from Jiangxi Province. Sun lacked authorization to either issue or sign any new invitation letters,
They asked me one question. I'm not able to talk about it, but it had to do with identifying whether something was my signature and that was it,
There needs to be more strategic thinking going into this, more resources and knowledge, and then once you have that, you can decide,
I do remember her being a little more polished than other government employees,
said Brandon Hicks, who worked closely with Sun when he was Cuomo’s director of African American affairs Of course, Western states are also spying against and in China, that’s just the normal old game,
said Stephan Blancke, an associate fellow at the Royal United Services Institute, or RUSI, a London-based think tank I won’t comment on domestic cases of the United States,
she said at a regular briefing in Beijing To think that any foreign government has the audacity to infiltrate a government organization like the state of New York has to be addressed with,
Somebody working for Hochul would be very useful in that regard. She would be in a position to press the pro-Beijing case and to muzzle the Taiwan case,
said Wilder, now an assistant professor at Georgetown University Just as TikTok has raised concerns about data collection and influence operations, this situation underscores the lengths to which China is willing to go to infiltrate and manipulate American institutions from within,
This is a classic Ministry of State Security operation,
Wilder said, referring to China’s main intelligence agency The PRC understands U.S. state and local leaders enjoy a degree of independence from Washington and may seek to use them as proxies to advocate for national U.S. policies Beijing desires, including improved U.S. economic cooperation with China, and reduced U.S. criticism of China’s policies towards Taiwan, Tibetans, Uyghurs, pro-democracy activists, and others,
The charges against Linda Sun illustrate a broader strategy by China to infiltrate and exert influence at all levels of U.S. governance, from local to federal, by exploiting trust and access within political circles,
That's what they're alleging,
In an interview with NPR's All Things Considered, Hochul refused to comment on the message when asked, though she said ... and condemned Sun I believe that the Chinese government, with their behavior in doing this and working with Linda Sun is not acceptable,
Hochul said while concluding the presser We have very high levels of background checks,
Hochul said during a press conference on Wednesday I have conveyed my desire to have the counsel general from the People's Republic of China and the New York mission expelled, and I've been informed that the counsel general is no longer in the New York mission,
I almost had a heart attack when we referred to Taiwan as a country
In 2020, Sun texted a Chinese official saying We hope that during his public hearing next week, Mr. Cuomo will stop dodging accountability and honestly answer the American people,
