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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

Residents wearing masks wait at a traffic light in Beijing, China Thursday, Feb. 13, 2020. China is struggling to restart its economy after the annual Lunar New Year holiday was extended to try to keep people home and contain novel coronavirus. Traffic remained light in Beijing, and many people were still working at home. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

Chinese Maj. Gen. Chen Wei takes leading role in coronavirus fight

A Chinese general with a long record in biological warfare defense was dispatched to Wuhan at the end of January, fueling suspicions about the origin of the deadly virus and whether the outbreak is linked to a secure medical laboratory engaged in COVID-19 research.

February 16, 2020
Workers wearing protective gear spray disinfectant as a precaution against a new coronavirus at a theater in Seoul, South Korea, on Thursday. More than two dozen U.S. forces and other deployed Americans are quarantined over virus exposure concerns. (ASSOCIATED PRESS)

U.S. forces in South Korea feel impact of Chinese coronavirus

More than two dozen U.S. troops and others working with the American deployment in South Korea have been quarantined over concerns they may have been exposed to the deadly Wuhan virus during recent travel in China, a military spokesman said. The move is just another sign of the fallout the spreading epidemic is having not just in China but in countries around the region.

February 6, 2020
In this Jan. 30, 2020, file photo, a man wears a face mask as he stands along the waterfront in Wuhan in central China's Hubei Province. (AP Photo/Arek Rataj, File)

China denies lab link to coronavirus as questions over origin mount

A Chinese Communist Party-affiliated newspaper has published the first semi-official response to reports the virus from Wuhan may have been produced in a government laboratory and was not caused by the natural transmission of an animal virus to humans.

February 5, 2020
Chinese companies raised $48 billion from American capital markets from 2013 through the end of last year, a Commerce Department official says. (Associated Press/File)

China using U.S. markets to raise billions

A Commerce Department official warned Congress recently that China is raising billions of dollars in U.S. capital markets and the activity could undermine American security.

February 5, 2020
"We will accept the invitation to participate as part of the World Health Organization's team of experts that will deploy to China to assist Chinese experts on the ground to actually get ground troops to study this virus, get all the information to both prevent the spread further in China but also global spread of this virus," said Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar. (Associated Press/File)

China asks CDC for help to investigate Wuhan virus

Beijing, after initially blocking requests from the United States, has agreed to permit authorities from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to take part in an international investigation of the global health crisis caused by the rapidly spreading Wuhan coronavirus.

January 30, 2020
An F/A-18 Super Hornet fighter jet lands on the deck of the U.S. Navy USS Ronald Reagan in the South China Sea, Tuesday, Nov. 20, 2018. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung) ** FILE **

Liberal bias in Navy’s China intelligence

U.S. intelligence agencies for years have battled allegations of liberal bias that resulted in poor assessments of the emergence of a threatening China.

January 22, 2020
President Trump and Chinese Vice Premier Liu He signed a trade agreement Wednesday at the White House without any U.S. concessions on the Justice Department's case against Huawei Technologies. (Associated Press)

Donald Trump keeps Huawei out of China trade deal

China's efforts to persuade the U.S. government to drop its criminal prosecution of a senior executive of Huawei Technologies, the global telecommunications giant, as part of a partial trade deal were not successful.

January 15, 2020