Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs/Definition

Heads the Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs of the United States Department of State; incumbent is Kurt Campbell; deals with regional issues including: ; conducts diplomatic relations with Australia, Brunei, Burma, Cambodia, China(including Hong Kong Special Administrative Region and Macau Special Administrative Region), East Timor, Fiji, Indonesia, Japan, Kiribati, Laos, Malaysia, Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Mongolia, Nauru, New Zealand, North Korea, Palau,Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Samoa, Singapore, Solomon Islands, South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand, Tonga, Tuvalu, Vanuatu, and Vietnam