Miles Yu has lived his version of the American dream. Born Yu Maochun in Anhui Province, he became intrigued with the U.S. after listening to Ronald Reagan’s calls for freedom broadcast over Voice of America. He arrived in the U.S. as an exchange student in 1985, remained and became a hawkish China scholar at the U.S. Naval Academy. In the first Trump administration, he served as Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s chief China policy advisor and helped shift U.S. policy from engagement to conf