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Bill Gertz

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 undated electron microscope image made available by the U.S. National Institutes of Health in February 2020 shows the novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2. Also known as 2019-nCoV, the virus causes COVID-19. (NIAID-RML via AP)

CIA targeted in virus disinformation campaign

Four months after the outbreak of the coronavirus disease in China, investigators are still no closer to determining the origin of what has now produced a global pandemic.

March 4, 2020
This March 27, 2008, aerial file photo, shows the Pentagon in Washington.  (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File) **FILE**

Pentagon pressed on Russian, Chinese push in Arctic

The Pentagon needs more icebreakers and strategic ports and better communications to prevent Russia and China from controlling new sea lanes in the Arctic, senior military and defense officials told Congress on Tuesday.

March 3, 2020
Seal of the U.S. Navy. ( AP Photo)

Navy slow to protest latest Chinese laser attack on P-8 jet

The State Department has protested the potentially dangerous firing of a "weapons-grade" laser by a Chinese warship last month against a Navy P-8 jet over the Pacific near Guam, according to U.S. officials. The Feb. 17 incident involved a high-powered laser deployed on a People's Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) guided-missile destroyer in a manner the Pacific Fleet described called "unsafe and unprofessional."

March 2, 2020
Adm. Charles A. Richard, commander of U.S. Strategic Command, said that he has "seen no indications of any compromise" in the security of America's nuclear stockpile rising out of the SolarWinds hack, which the intelligence community believe is linked to the Russian government. (Associated Press/File)  **FILE**

Charles Richard: China nuclear buildup troubling

The commander of U.S. Strategic Command told Congress recently that China is engaged in a troubling buildup of nuclear forces that could be used to wage regional conflict or to coerce nations in Asia.

February 19, 2020