Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo‘s China Policy staffer Miles Yu recently revealed that he has returned to academia and has joined the Hudson Institute, a conservative think tank in Washington, D.C.
In a Facebook post, Yu said he was happy to return to the US Naval Academy as a professor. In addition, Yu joined the Hudson Institute, a D.C. think tank, as a “senior fellow” and the Hoover Institution, another conservative think tank in California, as a “visiting fellow. He also joined the Hoover Institution, another conservative think tank in California, as a “visiting fellow.
Raised in Chongqing, China during the Cultural Revolution, Maochun Yu came to the United States in 1985 as an exchange student. Four years later, the Tiananmen Square massacre led Yu to become a student advocate for the Chinese democracy movement. He then pursued his doctorate at the University of California, Berkeley, before becoming a professor of modern China and military history at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland, in 1994, where he remained on the faculty for 26 years. Four years ago, Maochun Yu was transferred to the U.S. Department of State as chief China policy advisor.
In the final year of Trump‘s first term, Pompeo became the public face of the U.S. government’s hard-line stance on Beijing, imposing sanctions and various crackdowns against the Chinese Communist Party for human rights abuses, suppression of Hong Kong freedoms, military aggression in the South China Sea, and the threat posed by Chinese technology.
In an interview last week with American Thought Leaders, an English-language Epoch Times column, Yu made it clear that the terms “Chinese Communist Party” and “China” are two completely different concepts, and that the Chinese Communist Party The CCP is not representative of China and its people.
“As Secretary Pompeo said, the Communist Party of China and the Chinese people are two different things, and the Communist Party of China and the country of China are two different things, which are completely different concepts. So it’s very, very important to be able to distinguish that as well.” Yu Maochun stressed that the CCP is arguably one of the most demagogic, arbitrary and largely Leninist parties in human history, based on its ideology.
“I think the world is now beginning to pay attention to that as well, and more and more countries are beginning to center on that viewpoint when they are formulating their policies toward China.” He added.
In addition, on the so-called “red lines” that the Chinese Communist Party has been claiming, i.e., the so-called “internal” issues of Taiwan, Hong Kong, Xinjiang and Tibet, Yu Maochun noted that the Chinese Communist Party’s strategy to threaten the United States is to ask the United States not to interfere with the regime’s “This is only a ‘red line’ for the Chinese Communist Party, not a red line based on international law.
Pompeo, who joined the Hudson Institute as a “distinguished fellow” after stepping down as secretary of state on Jan. 20, said in an Oct. 30, 2019, speech at the institute on China policy that the Chinese Communist Party has been hostile to U.S. values and that the regime is seeking power to dominate the world. As a result, the world must resist head-on in a number of areas such as trade, human rights and sovereignty in the South China Sea.
“The Chinese Communist Party is seeking to challenge the United States and the world in a variety of ways, and it is up to all of us to confront those challenges head-on.” Pompeo said.
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