Maochun ‘Miles’ Yu is a tenured professor of East Asia and Military History at the United States Naval Academy. Dr. Yu specializes in Chinese military and strategic culture, U.S. and Chinese military and diplomatic history, and U.S. policy toward China. 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. While on loan from the USNA to the State Department in recent years, Dr. Yu has served as the Chief China Policy Adviser. In that capacity, he advised the Secretary of State on all China-related issues, helped overhaul US policy toward China, and participated in key US government interagency deliberations on major policy and government actions with regard to China and other East Asian countries, including Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan. Yu is a Senior Fellow and Director of the China Center at the Hudson Institute, as well as a visiting fellow at the Hoover Institution as a member of the Contemporary Conflict Working Group. He has published widely on China, U.S.-China relations, Asia in World War II, military history and the history of military 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). 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 NewsHour. Dr. Yu earned a doctorate from the University of California/Berkeley, master’s degree from Swarthmore College, and bachelor’s degree from Nankai University in China.
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