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Bill Gertz

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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.

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In this photo released by China's Xinhua News Agency, Chinese President Xi Jinping talks by video with patients and medical workers at the Huoshenshan Hospital in Wuhan in central China's Hubei Province, Tuesday, March 10, 2020. China's president visited the center of the global virus outbreak Tuesday as Italy began a sweeping nationwide travel ban and people worldwide braced for the possibility of recession. For most people, the new coronavirus causes only mild or moderate symptoms, such as fever and cough. For some, especially older adults and people with existing health problems, it can cause more severe illness, including pneumonia. (Xie Huanchi/Xinhua via AP)

China still pushing story that U.S. behind virus crisis

China is continuing to spread a story falsely claiming the deadly coronavirus originated in the United States and was first spread in China by the U.S. Army -- despite repeated denials from senior American leaders.

March 20, 2020
"Look, this information campaign that they are waging is designed to shift responsibility," Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said about China and its rhetoric regarding the coronavirus. (ASSOCIATED PRESS)

Donald Trump defends virus tweet as China kicks out more reporters

President Trump on Tuesday denounced China for falsely claiming the U.S. Army spread the deadly coronavirus in China, as Beijing condemned Mr. Trump's use of the phrase "Chinese Virus" and said it was expelling more U.S. journalists from the country.

March 17, 2020
In this photo taken Tuesday, March 3, 2020, a worker stands near Chinese national flag and propaganda which reads "Go China" in Beijing. As the rest of the world grapples with a burgeoning virus outbreak, China's ruling Communist Party has turned to its propaganda playbook to portray its leader as firmly in charge, leading an army of health workers in a "people's war" against the disease. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

U.S. demands China halt coronavirus propaganda

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo called on China's Communist Party to halt disinformation spread by propaganda outlets claiming the novel coronavirus was first spread in China by the U.S. Army.

March 16, 2020
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