President Joe Biden on Wednesday nominated one of his top national security aides, Kurt Campbell, as deputy secretary of state, a move that will put a veteran Asia hand in the No. 2 position at the U.S. State Department.
The announcement comes two weeks before Biden hopes to meet Chinese President Xi Jinping at the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation forum in San Francisco. A senior U.S. official said on Tuesday that an
Campbell, 66, currently serves as coordinator for Indo-Pacific Affairs on the National Security Council. He previously founded and led The Asia Group, a strategic advisory and capital management group.of then-President Barack Obama's "pivot to Asia" strategy, a vaunted but so far still limited rebalancing of resources to the region.
He outlined his approach to Asia in a 2016 book "The Pivot," which advocated strengthening existing alliances and building closer relations with states like India and Indonesia in the face of a rising China. China poses a daunting diplomatic challenge for the United States, which wants to counter its growing military without provoking a conflict and to curb what Washington views as the country's unfair business practices while avoiding an all-out trade war.
At the White House, Campbell has overseen the difficult relationship with China, which under the Trump and Biden administrations has deteriorated to its lowest level since normalization of diplomatic ties with Beijing in 1979.A former coal cellar where the great Renaissance artist Michelangelo is thought to have hidden to escape from a furious pope will open to the public on Nov. 15, a museum in Florence said on Tuesday.
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