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...........Gertz seems to be a writer with an agenda of writing bad things about China...............

I disagree. I don't think so.

Gertz seems to be a writer who publishes stories that no one else in the lame-stream, liberal, pro-china, kumbaya-singing, multicultural, can't-we-all-just-get-along, its-a-small-world-after-all media seems to want to publish.

He published the recent story about the mysterious freighter leaving a North Korean port (that turned out to have SCUDS) a full week before the rest of the press even heard about it. I seek his stories out.

This is what I said "This may or may not be true, but I would not take Gertz's word for it." Here I have said that the story may or may not be true which I have no idea and will conclude nothing.

I will say again that the author exposes his bias with this statment that is not attributed to anyone but himself and is his conclusion and speculation and spin only.

"The transfer itself is an indication that China's government, contrary to some public statements, is unwilling to support U.S. efforts to resolve the North Korean nuclear problem, said administration security officials"

You want to agree with gertz so you automatically assume I have an agenda and that gertz is clean, unbiased, without an agenda and totally objective simply because his conclusions are your conclusions. The fact that someone agrees with you does not make him right, or unbiased. Maybe gertz is right or maybe he is wrong, but he definitely has a bias and an agenda.

Generally, people will judge the quality of someone's writing and logically abilities solely on the extent to which the writer agrees with what the reader wants to hear. College professors do this all the time as a well written and argued conservative piece will get graded lower than a poorly written liberal piece. Just because college professors do this, does not mean that we have to too.

Gertz either absently mindedly omitted the attribution and/or supporting facts for his statement or he has an agenda and bias. I can not see something that is not there, so I must conclude until proven otherwise that in this article, the author has bias.