Miles Yu | |
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余茂春 | |
 Yu in 2019 | |
| Born | 1962 (age 62–63) Anhui, China |
| Occupation(s) | Historian, strategist |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | Nankai University Swarthmore College University of California, Berkeley |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | History |
| Sub-discipline | History of modern China |
| Institutions | US Naval Academy Hudson Institute Hoover Institution |
Miles Maochun Yu[1] (Chinese:余茂春;pinyin:Yú Màochūn, born 1962)[2][3] is an American historian and strategist who served as the principal China policy and planning adviser to formerUnited States Secretary of StateMike Pompeo.
Yu is a professor of military history and modern China at theUnited States Naval Academy inAnnapolis, Maryland. He is also a senior fellow at theHudson Institute, where he directs the China Center, director of theProject 2049 Institute, and the Robert Alexander Mercer Visiting Fellow at theHoover Institution.[4][5][6][7]
Yu wrote for "Inside China", the weekly column ofThe Washington Times, for several years. He has also hosted the "China Forum" lecture series.[8] He is a member and contributor of the Military History and Contemporary Conflict Working Group[9] at the Hoover Institution.[9]
Yu was born in China'sAnhui province and grew up inChongqing.[8] In 1979, he enrolled inNankai University,[8] where he studied history.[2] He was inspired by PresidentRonald Reagan, whose speeches Yu heard onVoice of America broadcasts, to move to the United States. In 1985, he moved toPennsylvania to study atSwarthmore College.[8]
Yu earned his PhD from theUniversity of California, Berkeley, in 1994, where he was a proponent for the1989 Tiananmen Square protests.
Upon completion of his doctoral studies, Yu joined the faculty of the United States Naval Academy as a professor of modern China and military history.[8]
Yu joined theTrump 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 have spent a significant period of time living inside communist China, is fluent in the Chinese language, and is familiar with theChinese Communist Party's political culture and ideological nomenclature.[8] He and Pompeo are seen as responsible for the Trump administration's "broad pushback against China."[10] Under Pompeo, Yu worked withKelley Eckels Currie,Mung Chiang, andDavid Stilwell to shapeAmerica's foreign policy toward China.[8] He was often deemed a key influence on United States-Chinese policy within the administration.[11][8] He has called his work under the Trump Administration on China "principled realism", which includes a distinction between the Chinese people and the CCP that rules the country.[8][12]
On December 23, 2022, theChinese Foreign Ministry announced that Yu, along with Todd Stein of theCongressional-Executive Commission on China, would be subject to sanctions taking effect the same day, including a freezing of all Chinese assets of the two, and an entry ban including their family members. The order specified that the measures were in retaliation to the sanctioning of former secretaryWu Yingjie of the Tibet Committee of theChinese Communist Party and Tibet police chief Zhang Hongbo by the United States earlier that month over allegedhuman rights violations, but made no specific accusations against Yu.[1][13] Yu responded by calling the sanctions on him "a badge of honor" and a publicity stunt by the Chinese government.[14]
Yu has published widely on China, U.S.-China relations, World War II/Asia, military history and the history of intelligence. His main works include the following:[15]
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