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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

Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe attends celebrations to mark his 90th birthday in Marondera, east of Harare, Sunday, Feb. 23, 2014. In July, Mugabe who has ruled the nation for 33 years since 1980, won disputed elections for another five-year term that will take him to age 94. (AP Photo/Tsvangirayi Mukwazhi)

Inside China: Long march to Africa

China is set to establish military bases in key spots of Africa, directly challenging the military presence of the U.S. and the European Union. Published March 6, 2014

Mao Zedong

Inside China: Chinese leaders use history to serve Communist Party

China is obsessed with history. Not the objective inquiry that can withstand scrutiny by divergent viewpoints with uncensored access to documents and records. It is obsessed with the history the Communist Party controls, writes and promotes to serve the nation's collective dictatorship. Published February 21, 2014

Lt. Emily Yeh

Inside China: Stealth fighter revealed

Chinese military forums on the Internet were abuzz recently over the posting of the first photo of China's latest test flight of a prototype jet. Published January 23, 2014

Inside China: Taiwan’s anti-sub drill

The Taiwanese navy this week conducted an anti-submarine warfare drill as part of a recent effort to improve the island's defenses against a Chinese underwater attack. Published January 16, 2014

Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych shakes hands with Chinese President Xi Jinping during a signing ceremony at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing last week. Mr. Yanukovych's visit is aimed at gaining Chinese support for Ukraine's battered economy. The country's economic malaise has helped fuel ongoing protests in Kiev. (ASSOCIATED PRESS)

Inside China: Ukraine gets nuclear umbrella

Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych escaped protests in his country last week with a state visit to Beijing, where he received China's pledge to protect Ukraine under its nuclear umbrella. Published December 12, 2013

The replica of a Chinese made fighter jet is silhouetted against the sun in Beijing, China, Wednesday, Nov. 27, 2013. China said Wednesday it had monitored two unarmed U.S. bombers that flew over the East China Sea in defiance of Beijing's declaration it was exercising greater military control over the area. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

Inside China: Airspace acrimony in East China Sea

China's effort to isolate Japan as its primary regional competitor has unraveled in less than a week: World powers rallied to echo Tokyo's outrage over Beijing setting up an air defense zone that encompasses much of the air defense zones of neighboring countries. Published November 28, 2013

In this Thursday, Nov. 14, 2013, photo provided by the Navy Media Content Service (NMCS), a MV-22 Ospreys, load supplies to provide aid during Operation Damayan. The George Washington Carrier Strike Group and the 3rd Marine Expeditionary Brigade are assisting the Philippine government in response to the aftermath of typhoon Haiyan/Yolanda in the Republic of the Philippines. (AP Photo/ NMCS 3rd Class Ricardo R. Guzman/Released)

Inside China: Beijing’s embarrassing relief effort for the Philippines

China, the world's second-largest economy and a key member of the Asia-Pacific community of nations, is providing the Philippines with an initial disaster relief package totaling $100,000 — an international example of the government's stingy response to humanitarian disasters. Published November 14, 2013

"Silent Contest," the work of the Chinese army's Political Commissars community, depicts a sub-rosa struggle between the U.S. and China — a battle to control the hearts and minds of the Chinese people.

Inside China: A parade of paranoia about U.S. ‘engagement’ in China

Comprehensive "engagement" has been a cornerstone of U.S. policy toward China since the Nixon administration. But the bedrock of Beijing's U.S. policy is paranoia over what Chinese leaders believe is a "peaceful evolution" conspiracy designed to overthrow the communist dictatorship via the ideological and spiritual infiltration of China's society. Published November 7, 2013

Inside China: Pacific challenges

The People's Liberation Army's (PLA) navy has begun a massive exercise in the western Pacific that is widely seen as a response to the recently completed U.S.-Japan-South Korean joint naval drills led by the aircraft carrier USS George Washington near the Korean Peninsula. Published October 24, 2013

Chinese soldiers march outside the Great Hall of the People in Beijing where the se¿ inner circle of Chinese political power, was paraded in front of assembled media Thursday, the day after 18th Communist Party Congress ended. (Associated Press)

Inside China: Taiwan invasion exercise

More than 20,000 Chinese soldiers, sailors and airmen carried out a boisterous joint-operation exercise this month, with Taiwan as the apparent simulated target of a Normandy-style invasion. Published October 17, 2013