“However, so long as China's intentions and growing capabilities remain unclear, the US and other nations in the region remain wary,” he said.
A Washington-based Taiwan expert who spoke with Campbell after his nomination was announced told the Taipei Times that Campbell was very well-informed on Taiwan and had talked “in depth” with Taiwanese leaders.
He said Campbell was in favor of greater direct contact between the US and the Taiwan militaries.
Other sources said that Campbell was from the “hawkish” wing of the Democratic Party and that he would work hard to deepen the US-Japanese alliance.
Campbell is the CEO and co-founder of the Center for a New American Security and is a director of the Aspen Strategy Group. Prior to that, he was a senior vice president at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.
During the administration of former US president Bill Clinton, he was deputy assistant secretary of defense for Asia and the Pacific in the Pentagon, a director on the National Security Council and White House fellow at the Treasury.
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