Date & ti me: Thurs\, April 2\, 2026 / 3:30-4:30pm (Viet coffee\, Thai tea\, and past ries provided)
Location: WCC B010
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Speakers:
Susan Tho rnton\, Senior Fellow at the Yale Law Paul Tsai China Center\; former Acting U.S. Assistant Secretary of State fo r East Asian and Pacific Affairs (2017-18)
Amb. Dennis Shea ‘86\, Executive Vice President and ch air of the J. Ronald Terwilliger Center for Housing Policy\; former Deputy USTR and U.S. Ambassador to the World Trade Organization (WTO)
Timothy Stratford ‘81\, Senior Cou nsel at Covington\; former Assistant U.S. Trade Representative (2005-10)
Moderator: Professor Mark Wu\, Henry L. Stimson Professor o f Law and Director of the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies
The U.S. and China are the world’s two lar gest economies\, constituting nearly half of the global GDP and manufacturi ng output. They are also each other’s largest trading partners. Yet\, over the past decade\, their trade relationship has faced steep challenges chara cterised by an ongoing trade war\, intense strategic competition\, and geop olitical tensions. Gathering experts on international trade and policy\, th is panel looks into the history and future of U.S.-China trade relations un der the current presidential administration\, as well as its implications f or law students and the broader Asian legal community interested in practic ing in that region.
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