Miles Yu



Miles is a Senior Fellow of Hudson Institute and a Visiting Fellow of Hoover Institute. He also is professor of East Asia and Military/Naval History at the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland. Miles 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, Miles advised the Secretary on all China-related issues, helped overhaul U.S. policy toward China, and participated in key U.S. government inter-agency 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 2011-2016, Miles 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.

Miles has published widely on topics in his field. His books include OSS in China: Prelude to Cold War (Yale University Press, 1997) and The Dragon’s War: Allied Operations and the Fate of China, 1937–1947 (Naval Institute Press, 2006). Miles is the author of many scholarly articles on China, military and intelligence history, and newspaper columns about contemporary Chinese political and military affairs. His numerous awards include the US Naval Academy’s top researcher award, U.S. NavySpecial Action Awards, and U.S. Navy Meritorious Service Award.

Miles 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.

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Links for Miles Yu
Bulletin for April 12, 2021
Miles Yu named ICAS Fellow


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