Miles Yu

Principal China Policy Advisor to U.S. Secy. of State; Professor, U.S. Naval Academy

Commissioner for China Expertise

The Global Tech Security Commission plays a critical, bi-partisan role in challenging and defeating the Chinese Communist Party’s dictatorship that is greatly enabled and empowered by modern technologies and sophisticated tools of repression and aggression.

Miles Yu served as the senior China Policy and Planning adviser to the U.S. Secretary of State, 2019-2021 in the Trump Administration. He is a senior fellow and director of the China Center at Hudson Institute, the Robert Alexander Mercer Visiting Fellow at the Hoover Institution, and a senior fellow at the Institute of Project 2049. 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, US and Chinese military and diplomatic history, and US policy toward China.

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Miles Yu On Taiwan: China’s lessons—and fears—from the Wagner revolt in Russia

By: Miles Yu

08.30.23

For over a century, tumultuous events thousands of miles away in Russia have impacted China profoundly. Mao Zedong (毛澤東) famously said that the cannon sound of the October Revolution brought Marxism-Leninism to China. Now Xi Jinping (習近平) fears that last month’s Wagner revolt may provide a model for the Chinese Communist Party’s undoing.