Former Hochul and Cuomo aide Linda Sun wasn’t betraying the people of New York at the behest of China, she was just doing her job, her defense lawyer said — and that job included keeping the governor away from thorny international topics like relations with Taiwan.

“Linda Sun did what she was hired to do. That is what the evidence will show,” her lawyer, Jarod Schaeffer, said Wednesday, in his opening argument at Sun’s Brooklyn Federal Court trial. “And she didn’t commit a crime by doing her job.”

Sun, who started working in the governor’s office in 2012, and her husband, Chris Hu, were indicted last year, accused of helping shape state policy in exchange for millions in kickbacks and gifts — including specially cooked salted ducks for her parents.

In June, the feds hit her with wi

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