Leo Timm
Leo Timm is a translator and writer focusing on China-related news, culture, and history.
Taiwanese-Americans Hope to Strengthen Community, Spur Business in Upstate NY
MIDDLETOWN, NY — Members of the local Taiwanese-American community gathered at the Northern Medical Center in Middletown for an inaugural celebration to mark the founding of the NYS Orange County Taiwanese Association. Organizer Eric Yeh...
How a Chinese Artist in Italy Became an Online Relay Point for Protests Against Communist ‘Zero-COVID’ Policy
Late this November, when tens of thousands of Chinese rose up to oppose the communist regime's ruinous "zero-COVID" epidemic control measures, getting information about the scale and nature of the protests across to the outside...
China Continues to Ease Out of ‘Zero-COVID’ Following Mass Protests
The Chinese government has ordered the further relaxation of draconian “zero-COVID” restrictions that have been in place since the beginning of the pandemic, with Beijing on Dec. 7 announcing a list of 10 steps to...
Yuan Stabilizes as China Continues to Relax ‘Zero-COVID’ Restrictions
China's yuan firmed at a nearly 7:1 ratio versus the American dollar as the communist regime announced measures that marked a sharp change to its tough, three-year-old zero-COVID policy that has battered its economy and...
Exiled Chinese Jurist Describes the Pernicious Legacy of Former CCP Leader Jiang Zemin
Yuan Hongbing, a Chinese dissident and former jurist residing in Australia, shared his views on the pernicious legacy of Jiang Zemin, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) ex-leader who died in Shanghai on Nov. 30. Jiang,...
‘We Don’t Want the Communist Party’: Chinese Rise Up Against ‘Zero-COVID’ Lockdowns
The last couple weeks have seen a growing protest movement throughout China as people fed up with the communist regime’s crushing pandemic measures take to the streets by the hundreds or thousands. Since 2020, the...
Jiang Zemin, Former CCP Leader Notorious for ‘Rule by Corruption’ and Persecution of Falun Gong, Dead of Leukemia at 96
Commentary Former head of the communist Chinese regime Jiang Zemin, who was in office from 1989 to the early 2000s, succumbed to leukemia and multiple organ failure in Shanghai at 12:13 p.m. local time on...
Kim Jong Un Oversees Latest North Korean Nuclear Missile Test, Brings Daughter to Launch Site
North Korea tested its new Hwasong-17 intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) on Friday, Nov. 18, sending the massive two-stage rocket thousands of miles into space in a flight demonstrating the ability to hit most of North...
Oregon Voters Pass Measure 111 to Guarantee Affordable Medical Care
In the latest midterm elections, Oregon voters passed Ballot Measure 111 by a narrow 50.7-percent majority. The measure creates a constitutional right to affordable health care for all Oregonians, making Oregon the first U.S. state...
Biden Pledges Cooperation Alongside Competition After 3-Hour Meeting With China’s Xi
On Nov. 14, U.S. President Joe Biden met face-to-face with his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping for the first time since coming to office, and the two leaders spoke for about three hours on bilateral trade,...
Russian Generals Order Retreat From Kherson City in Ukraine
Kherson, the largest city taken over by Russian troops since the beginning of the war in Ukraine, is likely to soon return to Kiev's control as Russia's defense minister and its top general in charge...
Fearing COVID Lockdown, Over 10,000 Workers Break Out of China’s Biggest iPhone Factory
In the latest — and one of the most dramatic — examples of Chinese forced to the brink by the communist regime’s draconian pandemic curbs, thousands of employees at a massive iPhone factory in the...