April 15, 2015
The greatest challenge for American leaders is finding the “wit and wisdom” to focus more attention on the Asia-Pacific.
During a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing on Tuesday, Kurt Campbell, Chairman and CEO of The Asia Group, told the Senators that “the lion’s share of the history of the 21st century is going to be written in Asia. There’s just no doubt about it.”
Campbell served in the U.S. Department of State under Hillary Clinton from 2009 to 2013 as assistant secretary for East Asia and the Pacific, and has been called one of the architects of the U.S. “pivot” to Asia policy.
In his remarks to the Senate committee, Campbell said that that while most would agree that economic power is shifting dramatically to the Asia-Pacific, the United States is “consumed with the Middle East and South Asia” and will be for some time. He commented that the greatest challenge for congressional and executive branch leaders would be to find the “wit and wisdom” to focus more attention on the Asia-Pacific.
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