UPDATE 1-Pacific may be most likely to see strategic surprise -U.S. policymaker Campbell


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(Adds details, context, quotes) WASHINGTON, Jan 10 (Reuters) - The Pacific may well be the part of the world most likely to see "strategic surprise," the U.S. Indo-Pacific coordinator Kurt Campbell said on Monday, in comments apparently referring to China's ambitions to expand its influence and establish bases there. Campbell told an event hosted by Washington's Center for Strategic and International Studies the Pacific was a region where the United States has "enormous moral, strategic, historical interests" and where it had not done enough, unlike countries such as Australia and New Zealand. "If you look and if you ask me,...