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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

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

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