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Bill Gertz, Controversial State Department Nominee Retiring; Thornton nomination to be assistant secretary was blocked in Senate. Washington Free Beacon, July 2, 2018.
http://freebeacon.com/national-s ... t-nominee-retiring/

Quote:

(a) Acting Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs Susan "Thornton announced the retirement in an email to staff members on Friday [June 29].

(b) "Thornton came under fire from conservatives for her role as President Barack Obama's assistant secretary of state known for favoring soft line policies toward China.

(c) "Thornton was nominated for the assistant secretary post under former Secretary of State Rex Tillerson [on Dec 24, 2017, having been acting secretary of state since Mar 9, 2017]

(d) In the confirmation hearing for assistant secretary of state, "Thornton provided confusing answers to senators' questions about her role in a May 2017 incident in New York City when the FBI was blocked by the State Department from arresting several high-ranking Chinese security officials who were in the city in violation of their U.S. visas.

"The Chinese officials from the Ministry of State Security, the intelligence service, and the Public Security Ministry, which runs the Chinese police, had gone to New York to pressure exiled Chinese billionaire Guo Wengui into returning to China.

"The FBI had obtained authorization to arrest the officials, but after a video teleconference of administration officials, including several in the State Department's East Asia bureau, the arrests were called off.

(e) "State Department officials quickly called for the conference call after learning of the planned FBI arrests.

"Two of the Chinese officials operating outside their transit visas in New York were identified to the Free Beacon as Sun Lijun 孙力军, vice minister of the Public Security Ministry, and Liu Yanping 刘彦平, vice minister of State Security.

"State Department officials feared the arrests of the Chinese officials would have upset U.S.-China relations and thus argued against detaining the officials.

(f) "The Chinese officials' covert coercion effort is part of a larger problem of official Chinese government pressure on dissidents. The operations have been called 'Operation Foxhunt' by the Chinese

Note:
(a) Susan Thornton (speaks Russian and Mandarin Chinese; a career diplomat who has worked at the State Department since 1991; served as the Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for East Asian Affairs since February 2016 and before that she worked as the Deputy Chief of Mission to the United States Embassy in Turkmenistan)  en.wikipedia.org for her.
(b) There is no need to read the rest.