Professor of Political Science at Wittenberg University, USA (Ph.D Stanford University), and senior fellow of the Shanghai Association of American Studies, senior fellow of the Russian Studies Center of the East China Normal University in Shanghai, and senior advisor to the Intellisia Institute in Guangzhou, China. Yu has also been a regular contributor to the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) in Washington DC on Russia, China and Central Asia (Comparative Connections) since 1999.