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Susan Thornton

Senior Fellow, Paul Tsai China Center, Yale Law School; Nonresident Senior Fellow, Foreign Policy, John L. Thornton China Center, U.S.A

Susan A. Thornton is a former career U.S. diplomat who retired in 2018 as Acting Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs.  She is currently a Visiting Lecturer at Yale Law School and a Senior Fellow at the Law School’s Paul Tsai China Center.  Thornton is also Director of the Forum on Asia Pacific Security at the National Committee on American Foreign Policy and a non-resident fellow at the Brookings Institution.