About this Event
WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 14, 2026
5:00 - 6:30 P.M. ET | RECEPTION FOLLOWED BY SPEAKING PROGRAM
featuring
Miles Maochun Yu, Former China Policy Advisor to the Secretary of State and Hoover Institution Visiting Fellow
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Join The Hoover Institution in DC for the next session in the Ideas Uncorked monthly happy hour series that brings together preeminent scholars from the Hoover Institution at Stanford University and the best from California Wine Country.
This is an in-person only series at the Hoover Institution's Washington, DC office.
ABOUT
Miles Maochun Yu is a visiting fellow at the Hoover Institution and director of the China Center at Hudson Institute. Dr. Yu specializes in Chinese military and strategic culture, US and Chinese military and diplomatic history, and US policy toward China.
Dr. Yu joined the Trump administration and served as the China policy adviser to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. In that capacity, he advised the secretary on all China-related issues, helped overhaul US policy toward China, and participated in key US government interagency deliberations on major policy and government actions with regard to China and other East Asian countries, including Japan, South Korea and Taiwan.
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Agenda
🕑: 05:00 PM - 05:30 PM
Reception
Info: Enjoy the best from California Wine Country and a self-serve grazing table.
🕑: 05:30 PM - 06:30 PM
Speaking Program and Q&A
Info: Hear from our expert speakers, followed by audience Q&A.
Event venue & nearby stays
Hoover Institution, 1399 New York Avenue Northwest, Washington, United States
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