Miles Yu
Miles Maochun Yu (, born August 8, 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. He is also a professor of military history and modern China at the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland, a senior fellow at the Hudson Institute and the Project 2049 Institute, and the Robert Alexander Mercer Fellow at the Hoover Institution. Yu wrote for "The Washington Times"' weekly column, "Inside China", for several years. He has also hosted the "China Forum" lecture series. He is  a member and contributor of the Military History and Contemporary Conflict Working Group and the China's Global Sharp Power Project at Hoover Institution. Early life. Yu was born in China's Anhui province and grew up in Chongqing. In 1979, he enrolled in Nankai University, where he studied history. He was inspired by President Ronald Reagan, whose speeches Yu heard on Voice of America broadcasts, to move to the United States. In 1985, he moved to Pennsylvania to study at Swarthmore College. Yu earned his PhD from the University of California, Berkeley in 1994, where he was a proponent  for the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests. After graduation, he joined the faculty of the United States Naval Academy as a professor of modern China and military history. United States Department of State. Yu joined the Trump administration as its principal China policy planner and strategist, working under then-Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. Yu is regarded as one of the few senior U.S. government officials who has spent a significant period of time living inside communist China, is fluent in the Chinese language, and is familiar with the Chinese Communist Party's (CCP) political culture and ideological nomenclature. He and  Pompeo are seen as responsible for the Trump administration's "broad pushback against China." Under Pompeo, Yu has worked with Kelley Eckels Currie, Mung Chiang, and David Stilwell to shape America's foreign policy toward China. He is often deemed a key influence on United States-Chinese policy within the administration. He has called his work under the Trump Administration on China as "principled realism", which includes a distinction between the Chinese people and the CCP that rules the country. Columnist Alex Lo of the "South China Morning Post" has called Yu's previous analyses as "hawk-ish". Bibliography. He  has published widely on China, U.S.-China relations, World War II/Asia, military history and the history of intelligence. His main works include "OSS in China: Prelude to Cold War" (Yale University Press, 1997), "The Dragon's War: Allied Operations and the Fate of China, 1937-1947". (Naval Institute Press, 2006).