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Miles Yu

Miles Yu is the director of the China Center at the Hudson Institute and a visiting fellow at the Hoover Institution. His Red Horizon column appears every other Tuesday in The Washington Times. He can be reached at mmilesyu@gmail.com.

Columns by Miles Yu

Shackled by history: How Asia risks forfeiting its future in the Indo-Pacific

History is indispensable. Nations that forget history often repeat its mistakes. Historical memory provides lessons, warnings and perspective.

June 8, 2026

Ten China falsehoods exposed by the Trump-Xi summit

The May 2026 Trump-Xi summit revealed a dangerous temptation in American foreign policy: the desire to substitute comforting illusions for strategic clarity.

May 25, 2026

Trump should reject China’s phony demand for mutual respect

As President Trump embarks on his much-anticipated trip to China, Beijing has predictably amplified its familiar demand for "mutual respect" as the foundation for U.S.-Chinese engagement.

May 11, 2026

China’s rage machine: Power or performance?

The Chinese Communist Party is shouting again. In recent weeks, Beijing has issued a fresh round of "stern warnings" to the United States, mainly over Taiwan, Venezuela, Iran and Washington's broader global role.

April 27, 2026

The strange case of ‘highly respected’ Xi Jinping

"When the legend becomes the fact, print the legend," goes the old line from the Western classic "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance."

April 13, 2026

How U.S. military dominance unravels China’s war machine

Every major leap in the People's Liberation Army has been triggered by decisive demonstrations of U.S. military superiority.

March 30, 2026

Trump as a constitutional originalist

President Trump is often portrayed as a disruption of the American political tradition -- an outsider who shattered long-standing norms. Yet that interpretation may miss the larger historical context.

March 16, 2026

What Eileen Gu and Alysa Liu teach us about the meaning of success

As a parent of a teenager born and raised free in America, I watched the stories of athletes Eileen Liu and Alysa Liu unfold at the Winter Olympics with more than casual interest.

March 2, 2026

Taiwan is not China’s Sudetenland

Beijing has tried for years to convince the world that Taiwan is its ultimate, sacred "core interest," the one issue that eclipses everything else.

February 16, 2026

China not a competitor, but America’s top adversary

For years, Western commentary has defaulted to a comfortable phrase: China is our greatest competitor.

February 2, 2026

China’s Arctic push threatens Greenland and North American defense

China's Arctic ambition is no longer a curiosity.

January 19, 2026

China’s hemisphere strategy and Monroe Doctrine 2.0

The downfall of Venezuela's Nicolas Maduro serves as another powerful reminder: China's campaign for global dominance isn't confined to the Taiwan Strait or Indo-Pacific trade routes.

January 5, 2026

China and the death of trust

Old habits die hard, especially among elites who mistake nostalgia for strategy.

December 22, 2025

Taiwan’s future is not China’s internal affair; it is the world’s

Winston Churchill, one of the principal architects of the 1943 Cairo Declaration, understood something in 1955 that remains true today.

December 8, 2025

To reframe Taiwan, Washington should heed Japan’s Takaichi

In recent remarks, Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi articulated a position on Taiwan that diverges sharply and importantly from the prevailing global narrative surrounding cross-strait tensions.

November 24, 2025

Communist China has never been a peace-loving country

Since the founding of the People's Republic of China in 1949, the Chinese Communist Party has projected an image of a "peace-loving" civilization wronged by imperialism and devoted to harmony.

November 10, 2025