Miles Yu is a senior fellow and director of the China Center at Hudson Institute. He is also a
professor of East Asia and military and naval history at the United States Naval Academy in
Annapolis, Maryland. Dr. Yu specializes in Chinese military and strategic culture, U.S. and
Chinese military and diplomatic history, and U.S. policy toward China. Dr. Yu joined the Trump
administration and served as the China policy adviser to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. In that
capacity, he advised the secretary on all China-related issues, helped overhaul U.S. policy toward
China, and participated in key U.S. government interagency deliberations on major policy and
government actions with regard to China and other East Asian countries, including Japan, South
Korea and Taiwan. He is a visiting fellow at the Hoover Institution as a member of the Military
History/Contemporary Conflict Working Group. From 2011 to 2016, he wrote the weekly
column “Inside China” for the Washington Times. Since 1996, he has been an editorial
consultant to Radio Free Asia, and a contributor to various media outlets including the Wall
Street Journal and PBS News Hour. Dr. Yu received a doctorate in history from the University
of California, Berkeley, a master’s degree from Swarthmore College, and a bachelor’s degree
from Nankai University.
