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Bill Gertz

bgertz@washingtontimes.com

Bill Gertz is a national security correspondent for The Washington Times. He has been with The Times since 1985.
He is the author of eight books, four of them national best-sellers. His latest book, "Deceiving the Sky: Inside Communist China's Drive for Global Supremacy," reveals details about the growing threat posed by the People's Republic of China. He is also the author of the ebook "How China's Communist Party Made the World Sick."
Mr. Gertz also writes Inside the Ring, a weekly column that chronicles the U.S. national security bureaucracy.
Mr. Gertz has been a guest lecturer at the FBI National Academy in Quantico, Va.; the Central Intelligence Agency in Virginia; the National Defense University at Fort McNair in Washington; and the Brookings Institution in Washington. He has participated in the National Security Studies Program at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies and Syracuse University Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs.
He studied English literature at Washington College in Chestertown, Md., and journalism at George Washington University. He is married and has two daughters.
He can be reached at bgertz@washingtontimes.com.

Articles by Bill Gertz

This 2020 electron microscope image made available by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows SARS-CoV-2 virus particles which cause COVID-19. Scientists say it's still too early to predict the future of the coronavirus, but many doubt it will ever go away entirely. (Hannah A. Bullock, Azaibi Tamin/CDC via AP)

Virus experts demand new probe into origins of COVID-19

An international group of virus experts on Thursday called for a new "full and unrestricted" international forensic probe of the emergence of the coronavirus, expressing concern over China's dissembling and lack of transparency on the origins of the pandemic.

March 4, 2021
Air Force personnel are shown in this file photo preparing for an air-launched test of the booster for the new AGM-183A Air-Launched Rapid Response Weapon, or ARRW. (U.S. Air Force/File) **FILE**

Air Force to test hypersonic missile

The Air Force is moving ahead with a revolutionary high-speed missile that will be tested in the coming weeks, according to officials.

March 3, 2021
William J. Burns, then-nominee for Central Intelligence Agency director, testifies during his Senate Select Intelligence Committee confirmation hearing, Wednesday, Feb. 24, 2021, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (Tom Williams/Pool via AP) ** FILE **

William Burns backs CIA AI to counter China

William J. Burns, the veteran diplomat tapped to be the next CIA director, says he will follow through with the agency's plans to adopt artificial intelligence technology to counter the large and aggressive activities of Chinese spies.

February 24, 2021
In this file photo, then-Secretary of State Mike Pompeo speaks to the media prior to a meeting at the U.S. State Department on Nov. 24, 2020. (Saul Loeb/Pool via AP) (Associated Press)

Pompeo: Reckless Chinese virus labs threaten the world

Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Chinese laboratories conducting virus research pose a threat to the world and China's government should be held to account for the global coronavirus pandemic.

February 23, 2021
In this March 29, 2014 file photo, a Chinese Coast Guard ship attempts to block a Philippine government vessel as the latter tries to enter the Second Thomas Shoal in the South China Sea to relieve Philippine troops and resupply provisions. China’s simmering feud with South Korea over the deployment of an American missile defense system is just the latest in a string of foreign policy challenges piling up on President Xi Jinping’s desk as he prepares to host the annual summit of the G20 nations next month. North Korea, Taiwan, the South China Sea and the United States all pose difficult challenges and pose the risk of exhausting China’s crisis management capacity and the ruling Communist Party’s aura of total control. (AP Photo/Bullit Marquez, File)

U.S. voices concerns on new China maritime law

The United States is raising concerns that a new Chinese maritime law authorizing coast guard vessels to fire on ships in the South China Sea may escalate disputes in the region.

February 19, 2021
Acting Navy Secretary Thomas W. Harker, outlining a Biden administration order, said, 'Extremist conduct is contrary to good order and discipline." (U.S. Navy)

Lloyd Austin’s ‘extremism’ ban relayed to Navy, Marine Corps

A Navy message to all sailors and Marines outlines some of the Biden administration's thinking regarding combating radicalism within the services, following Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin's call for a stand-down throughout the military on "extremism."

February 17, 2021
Sen. Marco Rubio spent much of the day tweeting about 20 videos of protests against the communist dictatorship, and then he noted that President Biden had been maintaining radio silence. (Associated Press/File)

Joe Biden ends Confucius Institute disclosures

The Department of Homeland Security has dropped plans for a federal rule that would have required American schools and universities to disclose agreements with Chinese government-funded Confucius Institutes on their campuses.

February 10, 2021
Peter Ben Embarek, of the World Health Organization team holds up a chart showing pathways of transmission of the virus during a joint press conference held at the end of the WHO mission in Wuhan in central China's Hubei province on Tuesday, Feb. 9, 2021. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

WHO team: Coronavirus unlikely to have leaked from China lab

A team of international virus investigators from the World Health Organization and experts from China said Monday the deadly pathogen behind the global pandemic began in Wuhan, China but virologists were unable to pinpoint with certainty how the virus may have jumped from bats to animals and then humans.

February 9, 2021
Security personnel manned the entrance of the Wuhan Institute of Virology during a Wednesday, Feb. 3, 2021, visit by a team from the World Health Organization. (Associated Press) **FILE**

WHO visits China lab in COVID-19 origin search

After more than a year of delays imposed by the Chinese government, a World Health Organization team probing the origin of the COVID-19 pandemic visited the suspect Wuhan Institute of Virology on Wednesday.

February 3, 2021
A hacking unit at the National Security Agency was able to penetrate Huawei Technologies routers to steal secrets around the world. (Associated Press/File) **FILE**

NSA hacked Huawei routers

Documents leaked from the National Security Agency in 2014 revealed that the nation's premier spy service was secretly stealing electronic and other secrets by hacking Huawei Technologies telecommunications gear used widely in China and around the world.

January 27, 2021