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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President-elect Joe Biden has picked an Obama-administration veteran, Kurt Campbell, to be his senior official for Asia policy, including the relationship with China, a spokeswoman for Biden\u2019s transition said on Wednesday.<\/p>

U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Kurt Campbell is pictured as he speaks to the media after meeting with Japan’s Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida at the Foreign Ministry in Tokyo January 17, 2013. REUTERS\/Toru Hanai\/Files<\/figcaption>

Campbell, who served as the top U.S. diplomat for Asia under President Barack Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, is considered an architect of their \u201cpivot to Asia\u201d strategy, a vaunted but so far limited U.S. rebalancing of resources to the region.<\/p>\n

\u201cI can confirm Kurt will be coordinator for the Indo-Pacific at the NSC,\u201d the transition spokeswoman said, referring to the White House National Security Council.<\/p>\n

Campbell, 63, has run the Asia Group business strategy consultancy and advised Biden\u2019s campaign. He is co-founder of the Center for a New American Security think tank.<\/p>\n

Campbell outlined his approach to Asia in a 2016 book entitled \u201cThe Pivot\u201d which advocated strengthening existing alliances with Japan and South Korea and building closer relations with states like India and Indonesia in the face of a rising China.<\/p>\n

He has since endorsed some of the tough approaches towards China adopted by the Trump administration and also praised some of outgoing President Donald Trump\u2019s unprecedented dealings with North Korea.<\/p>\n

He also has backed away from his past support for a Trans-Pacific Partnership trade agreement that Washington negotiated under Obama and from which Trump withdrew.<\/p>\n

Probably Campbell\u2019s greatest challenge will be finding ways to recalibrate Trump\u2019s fractious relationship with Beijing to an extent that allows for Biden\u2019s aim of cooperation on issues such as climate change and North Korea, while maintaining attempts to change Chinese behavior.<\/p>\n

Last month, Campbell said Washington\u2019s \u201cticket to the big game\u201d in Asia was the U.S. military presence and its ability to deter challenges to the current \u201coperating system\u201d – a reference to China\u2019s bid to establish itself as the dominant regional power.<\/p>\n

He said the United States must demonstrate a vision for \u201can optimistic, open trading system,\u201d working with allies and denying China access to areas where it was necessary to maintain a cutting edge, such as artificial intelligence, robotics or 5G.<\/p>\n

While warning that rejoining multi-lateral trade agreements could not be expected at the start of a Biden administration, given the U.S. domestic mood, he also said a new China-backed Asia-Pacific trade deal and Beijing\u2019s interest in the TPP should be \u201ca real wake up call\u201d to the United States.<\/p>\n

Also last month, Campbell said the incoming administration would have to make an early decision its approach to North Korea and not repeat the delay of the Obama era, which led to \u201cprovocative\u201d steps by Pyongyang \u201cthat basically headed off any possibility of engagement.\u201d<\/p>\n

Campbell praised Trump\u2019s unprecedented summits with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, even though no progress has been made persuading him to give up nuclear weapons and missiles.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think some boldness is appropriate in American foreign policy, particularly in Asia,\u201d said Campbell, who also has spoken of maintaining strong backing for Taiwan, something Trump and his Secretary of State Mike Pompeo boosted. Beijing sees the island as a renegade province.<\/p>\n

Campbell has said Republicans and Democrats need to work together on China, saying in a speech in October that Washington faces \u201ca period of deep strategic competition\u201d with Beijing and must dispel the notion that America was in a \u201churtling decline.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have to convince other countries we have our own house in order,\u201d he said. Without both parties working together on China and Asia, he added, \u201cwe will, in all likelihood, fail.\u201d<\/p>\n

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