'Like we've changed sides': Ex-chief appalled by Trump response to China cyberattacks

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Travis Gettys May 16, 2026 4:11PM ET


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Sue Gordon, who resigned as deputy director of national intelligence during Trump's first term, told MS NOW's Nicolle Wallace she was concerned with the president's indifferent attitude to Chinese companies stealing American intellectual property.

“We do things, and they do things, and that’s the way it is,” Trump told Fox News’ Sean Hannity about protections for U.S. companies. “I’d like to see it taken care of. But they’ve been doing that for 50 years.”..............

Gordon argued that Chinese law was very different on intellectual property.

"There is a difference, and probably the most concrete difference is that they have national security laws that insist that every Chinese citizen or company, when asked, must provide their information that they have of any data of somebody else's that goes through, and we don't – that isn't our law, so it isn't the same," Gordon said. "I reject the notion that it's the same. Now, if it's being done differently by some people and it hasn't been discovered yet, but just intellectually, it's a different thing."

"That's exactly the impact with our allies and partners," she added. "It's like we've changed sides.".................

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Ex-chief appalled by Trump response to China cyberattacks “We do things, and they do things, and that’s the way it is,” Trump told Fox News’ Sean Hannity about protections for U.S. companies-“I’d like to see it taken care of. But they’ve been doing that for 50 years” www.rawstory.com/trump-china-...

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