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
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's transition said on Wednesday.
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 "pivot to Asia" strategy, a vaunted but so far limited U.S. rebalancing of resources to the region.
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