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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

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
Outgoing Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe has accused U.S. intelligence analysts of playing down China's role in interference with the Nov. 3 presidential election. (Associated Press/File)

John Ratcliffe: Intel on China politicized

Outgoing Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe dropped a political bombshell in a report issued in the final days of the Trump administration, accusing U.S. intelligence analysts of politicization by playing down China's role in interference with the Nov. 3 presidential election.

January 20, 2021
In this Dec. 22, 2019, file photo, a man holds a sign during a rally to show support for Uighurs and their fight for human rights in Hong Kong. People from western China who are targets of a Chinese government crackdown say they have been threatened and harassed in the United States. Those fleeing the crackdown on the predominantly Muslim Uighur ethnic group typically receive U.S. asylum. But Uighurs tell The Associated Press and human rights groups they still afraid amid threats aimed at them and their families back in China. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man, File)

U.S. declares China engaged in genocide against Uighurs

The U.S. government on Tuesday declared China's communist government guilty of carrying out a policy of genocide and crimes against humanity for its mass repression campaign against Uighur minorities in western China.

January 19, 2021
China’s DF-26 ballistic missiles worry the U.S. because they can be fired from long ranges with enough precision to attack a moving ship. (Associated Press)

China nuclear weapons arsenal growth alarming, State Department warns

China has rapidly expanded its nuclear and conventional missile forces over the past decade, nearly tripling its ballistic missile production capability and deploying a wide array of nuclear and conventional missile systems, according to an intelligence assessment released by the State Department.

January 14, 2021
The findings from deadlocked task force studying the origin of SARS-CoV-2 are unlikely to be published before President Trump leaves office. (Associated Press/File)

Coronavirus origin divides task force

An interagency group of scientists and medical experts formed to study the origin of the coronavirus is deadlocked over how to report their conclusions in the waning days of the Trump administration.

January 13, 2021