Calls for China regime change are 'reckless': Kurt Campbell

U.S. deputy secretary of state says 'careful coexistence' needed with Beijing

20240612 Kurt Campbell at Stimson

U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Kurt Campbell speaks at the Stimson Center in Washington on June 12. (Photo by Ken Moriyasu)

KEN MORIYASU, Nikkei Asia diplomatic correspondent

WASHINGTON -- The U.S. needs to find a way to carefully coexist with China, not pursue an endgame of regime change in Beijing, Deputy Secretary of State Kurt Campbell said Wednesday.

Speaking at the Stimson Center here, the Biden administration's key official on the Indo-Pacific was responding to a recent article in Foreign Affairs that argued that America's competition with China must be won, not managed.

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