President Joe Biden is poised to nominate Kurt Campbell to be deputy secretary of state, in a move that will catapult the influential White House Indo-Pacific tsar to the second-ranking diplomat in the US.
The White House plans to nominate Campbell, a veteran Asia policy official who previously served at the state department and Pentagon, imminently for the role, according to people familiar with the situation.
During his tenure as the inaugural White House co-ordinator for Indo-Pacific affairs, Campbell has been very influential in a job created to put more emphasis on Asia policy as the US deals with the rise of China.
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