Lyu Jinghua is a visiting scholar at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington, D.C., where she researches cybersecurity and U.S.-China defense relations. She served in the People’s Liberation Army for over twenty years, retiring as a colonel. In the last decade of her career, she was a United States analyst at the PLA’s Academy of Military Science in Beijing. She participated in a variety of international defense summits, including the Xiangshan Forum, Shangrila Dialogue,