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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

In this photo released by Xinhua News Agency, a Long March 7 rocket carrying the Tianzhou 1 cargo spacecraft blasts off from the Wenchang Space Launch Center in Wenchang in southern China's Hainan Province, Thursday, April 20, 2017. China has launched its first unmanned cargo spacecraft Thursday on a mission to dock with the country's space station. (Ju Zhenhua/Xinhua via AP)

China prepares for space warfare, report says

China's space warfare capabilities, including anti-satellite missiles and directed-energy weapons, pose growing threats to U.S. national security, according to a think tank report made public Wednesday.

May 13, 2020
Marshall Billingslea, the administration’s presidential envoy for arms control, said, “I am not going to be railroaded by the Russians or Chinese.” (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, file)

Marshall Billingslea says New START fate hangs on China

The United States is unlikely to extend the New START arms treaty with Russia by next year's deadline unless China is also part of the deal, the Trump administration's new presidential envoy for arms control said.

May 7, 2020
Gen. Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said at a briefing on the coronavirus that he would like the Chinese government to allow inspectors and investigators into Wuhan "so that the world can know the actual original source of this [and] so that we can apply the lessons learned and prevent outbreaks in the future." (Associated Press)

Mark Milley on coronavirus origin

Army Gen. Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, this week provided further details on efforts by the U.S. intelligence community to uncover the origin of the coronavirus now spreading around the world.

May 6, 2020
Level two Chinese laboratories have been studying bat coronaviruses similar to the SARS-CoV-2 virus that causes COVID-19. (Associated Press/File)

DNI says coronavirus origin being investigated

U.S. intelligence agencies investigating the coronavirus behind the deadly global pandemic now believe it either mutated from animals to humans or escaped from a Chinese government laboratory in Wuhan, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence said Thursday.

April 30, 2020
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, demanding access to the Wuhan Institute of Virology, said, "Remember, this isn't the first time we've had a virus come out of China." (Associated Press)

Mike Pompeo demands Wuhan lab access

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Wednesday that China's Communist Party must allow international investigators to look into security and research conducted at the Wuhan Institute of Virology, where researchers were studying bat coronaviruses like the one behind the COVID-19 pandemic.

April 29, 2020
This illustration provided by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in January 2020 shows the 2019 Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV). (CDC via AP, File)

Coronavirus origins in lab not ruled out by scientific studies

A scientific study recommended by White House medical adviser Dr. Anthony Fauci pointing to the origin of coronavirus pandemic as a jump from animals to humans also concludes it cannot be ruled out that the virus may have escaped from a laboratory.

April 20, 2020
President Trump imposed travel restrictions in January in anticipation of a potential health crisis, but the limits were criticized by the World Health Organization. (Associated Press/File)

Donald Trump’s virus action backed up by statistics

Statistics compiled by the Trump administration seem to bear out the president's defense of success as the result of actions taken early in the outbreak -- despite the fact that China had provided damaging false information on the lethality and transmissibility of the disease originating in Wuhan.

April 15, 2020