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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

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

Why China’s ‘Taiwan Reunification’ shibboleth is a hoax

China's "reunification" slogan is a hoax sustained by fear, ideology and deception.

October 27, 2025

China overplays its hand with rare earth ultimatum

Last week, Beijing made one of its most revealing strategic blunders in recent memory.

October 13, 2025

China and the postwar order: The futility of coexistence

The belief that China could be coaxed into democratic capitalism was always an illusion.

September 29, 2025

Beijing parade was a military showcase and a confession of vulnerabilities

On Sept. 3, China staged a massive military parade in Beijing designed to demonstrate the strength of the People's Liberation Army.

September 15, 2025

Why China must be excluded from postwar Ukraine’s reconstruction and security guarantees

As Ukraine endures the bloodshed of Russia's brutal war of aggression, debates intensify over what a postwar settlement should look like.

September 1, 2025

No use of force in U.S.-Taiwan policy

Sunday marked the 43rd anniversary of the Aug. 17, 1982, U.S.-China joint communique under the Reagan administration.

August 18, 2025

The roots of red aggression: Understanding China’s belligerence toward Taiwan

By any measure of international affairs, few issues are as consequential or as misunderstood as the Chinese Communist Party's belligerence toward Taiwan.

August 4, 2025

China’s World War II victory parade: A supreme fiction

On Sept. 3, the Chinese Communist Party will orchestrate a grand military parade in Tiananmen Square to commemorate victory over Japan in World War II.

July 21, 2025

China’s dirty secret: Propping up Putin to protect its own tyranny

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi, with a brazenness that defies decency, stood before Europe last week and all but confessed to China's true strategic calculus.

July 7, 2025

Regime change as strategic deterrence and national security

The term "regime change" has been demonized in popular discourse, slandered as reckless adventurism or imperialist hubris.

June 23, 2025

Diplomacy as theater: China’s obsession with Beijing-Washington summits

In a lengthy phone conversation last week with China's communist leader, President Trump accepted Xi Jinping's invitation to visit Beijing soon.

June 9, 2025

The fraudulent U.N. Resolution 2758 and the courage to recognize Taiwan

Few documents in modern diplomatic history have sown more confusion, distortion and injustice than United Nations General Assembly Resolution 2758.

May 27, 2025

Divergent goals will tear apart Russia and China alliance

While the world watches with alarm the deepening entente between Xi Jinping's China and Vladimir Putin's Russia, we would do well to recognize the limits and the inevitable failure of this axis of autocracy.

May 13, 2025

The great betrayal: How the CCP humiliates China and blames the world

If you believe the Chinese Communist Party, it is the selfless guardian of the Chinese people, tirelessly toiling for national rejuvenation.

April 28, 2025

WTO = WTF: How the World Trade Organization sold out the global economy

It's time to speak plainly: The World Trade Organization has become the World Trade Fiasco.

April 14, 2025

Promoting freedom abroad is essential to making America great again at home

The greatness of the United States has never been defined merely by its wealth, military might or industrial capacity.

March 17, 2025

A war built on fiction: China’s baseless claim over Taiwan

For decades, the Chinese Communist Party has pushed the tired claim that Taiwan is an inseparable part of China and that the U.S. has somehow pledged to endorse this fantasy.

March 3, 2025