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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

Inside China

The Chinese Communist Party's Propaganda Department issued an order two weeks ago establishing party control units for all of China's booming microblogging Internet service providers. The committees were directed to exercise direct state and party control and censorship, the Taiwan-based United Daily News reported Jan. 6. Published February 8, 2012

Undersecretary of State Maria Otero has expressed concern over "reports of violence and continuing heightened tensions in Tibetan areas of China." (Associated Press)

Inside China

China is engaged in the most repressive crackdown on Tibetans since 2008 and is intensifying a communist brainwashing campaign that is targeting Tibetans. The government in Beijing is calling the new campaign the "Nine Must-Haves." Published February 1, 2012

**FILE** The string of islands known as Senkaku islands in Japanese, and Diaoyu in Chinese, are seen here Sept. 29, 2010. Relations between China and Japan were strained when a Chinese fishing boat collided with Japanese patrol vessels earlier that month near the islands in the East China Sea that are claimed by both countries as well as Taiwan. (Associated Press)

Inside China

China continues to surge at an unprecedented speed as the world's major contender to dominate space exploration. Last year, China's 19 space launches surpassed the U.S. rate for the first time in history. For 2012, China's government has announced plans to loft 21 spacecraft carrying 30 satellites into orbit, and it has vowed to keep up that pace at least through 2020. That's when China presumably will take over as the leading spacefaring nation, and the only nation remaining with an operating space station. Published January 25, 2012

Former Ambassador Jon Huntsman Jr. became the target of an anti-American campaign after he said the "Internet generation" will bring change in China. (Associated Press)

Inside China

China's ruling Communist Party is waging a counteroffensive against what party General Secretary Hu Jintao calls the "ideological and cultural infiltration launched by hostile forces in the West." Published January 18, 2012

Inside China

The U.S. government recently sold the Chinese a highly sophisticated imaging device used on space telescopes that can be used by China's military for high-tech spying, according to a report in a Chinese newspaper. Published January 11, 2012

Inside China

The late Chinese scientist and defector Qian Xuesen won lavish praise from Chinese Communist Party leaders in early December on 100th anniversary of his birth. Published January 4, 2012