Gov. Kathy Hochul says she’s angry that her former deputy chief of staff, Linda Sun, was allegedly working as a foreign agent for China — right under her nose.

Now, Sun faces multiple charges, including violating the Foreign Agents Registration Act, money laundering and helping people commit visa fraud to enter the U.S.

After finding out Sun was arrested, Hochul said Wednesday that she wanted action from the highest level of the U.S. government.

“My first instinct was to have the consul general no longer in that position, so we reached out to the White House, Secretary Blinken, the secretary of state,” she said during a Midtown Manhattan-based press conference.

Later, a top State Department official said Consul General Huang Ping was out of a job — although unrelated to Hochul’s request.

“The consul general was not expelled. Our understanding is that the counsel general reached the end of a regularly scheduled rotation in August,” Matthew Miller, spokesman for the United States Department of State, said. “That said, foreign interference, including attempts to influence by, through, covert activities that should be registered under the Foreign Agents Registration Act — and are not registered — are things we take very seriously as you saw by the action the Department of Justice took yesterday.”

However, a Chinese consulate representative told NY1 that Consul General Huang Ping was “still performing his duties as usual.”

“I believe that the Chinese government, with their behavior in doing this and working with Linda Sun, is not acceptable and is a statement by us that we’re not tolerating this,” Hochul said.

Under Hochul and former Gov. Andrew Cuomo, Sun used her government job to align their public statements towards the interests of the People’s Republic of China.

Sun also blocked the Taiwanese government — China’s adversary — from meeting with New York officials.

“Lying and misleading these administrations, breaking our ethics rules, and even forging my signature on documents. But even more importantly, that this is a betrayal of New Yorkers and the American people,” Hochul said.

A direct target of Sun, Hochul was surprised Sun forged her signature, which appeared on invitations that helped Chinese officials visit New York, according to a copy of the indictment. Hochul also spoke — briefly — to federal agents.

“They asked me one question,” Hochul said. “I’m not able to talk about it, but it had to do with identifying whether something was my signature and that was it.”

Now in clean-up mode, Hochul said she’s changing her employee vetting process and has been cooperating with law enforcement since at least March 2023.

“She was a mid-level aide hired by my predecessor. She lied to our administration, she violated our ethics rules and the moment I found out, she was gone,” Hochul said.

Sun and her husband are also charged with benefiting financially from the Chinese government. The pair pleaded not guilty in court on Tuesday.