Miles Yu

Miles Maochun Yu (Chinese: 余茂春; pinyin: Yú Màochūn, born 1962) is an American historian and strategist who served as the principal China policy and planning adviser to former United States Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. Yu is a professor of military history and modern China at the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland, and an Adjunct Professor at the Daniel K. Inouye Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies in Honolulu, Hawaii. He is also a senior fellow at the Hudson Institute, where he directs the China Center, a senior fellow at the Institute for Indo-Pacific Security (IIPS)[1], and a Visiting Fellow at the Hoover Institution. Yu wrote for "Inside China", the weekly column of The Washington Times, for several years, and currently the weekly column "Red Horizon" [2], also for the Washington Times. He is the host of the weekly podcast "China Insider" at Hudson Institute. He has also hosted the "China Forum" lecture series. At the Hoover Institution, he is a member and contributor of the Military History and Contemporary Conflict Working Group.