The United States will not take its eye off the Indo-Pacific despite the Ukraine crisis, engaging in two theaters simultaneously as it had done during World World II and the Cold War, said the White House’s Indo-Pacific policy coordinator. “It’s difficult. It’s expensive. But it is also essential, and I believe that we’re entering a period where that is what will be demanded of the United States and this generation of Americans,” said the official, Kurt Campbell, at a Feb. 28 virtual event hosted by the German Marshall Fund of the United States. “There is a deep recognition and intention here inside the government, in the White House, to sustain every element of our engagement in the Indo-Pacific,” he added. In the long-awaited Indo-Pacific strategy released two weeks earlier, the White House deemed the region as critical in countering growing aggression from Beijing. Campbell said that Washington will show a …