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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

YJ-17, hypersonic anti-ship missiles, pass during a military parade to commemorate the 80th anniversary of Japan's World War II surrender held in front of Tiananmen Gate in Beijing, Wednesday, Sept. 3, 2025. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

Congress: Pentagon research funds Chinese military

China's government is exploiting American universities and gaining access to military technology for its hypersonic missile research and nuclear arms, according to a House investigation.

September 10, 2025
In this photo released by Xinhua News Agency, Chinese President Xi Jinping, center, and foreign leaders including Russia President Vladimir Putin, center left, and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, center right, walk to Tiananmen Rostrum ahead of a ceremony to commemorate the 80th anniversary of Japan's World War II surrender in Beijing, China, Tuesday, Sept. 3, 2025. (Shen Hong/Xinhua News Agency via AP)

Trump trolls Xi for conspiring against America

After initially dismissing concerns about China's massive military parade this week, President Trump took to social media to troll Chinese leader Xi Jinping on Beijing's questionable victory celebration marking the end of World War II.

September 3, 2025
The American and Chinese flags wave at Genting Snow Park ahead of the 2022 Winter Olympics, Feb. 2, 2022, in Zhangjiakou, China. China has been operating a spy base in Cuba since at least 2019, as part of a global effort by Beijing to upgrade its intelligence capabilities. That's according to a Biden administration official who was not authorized to comment publicly and spoke on the condition of anonymity. (AP Photo/Kiichiro Sato, File)

Chinese spies pose strongest threats to university research

Chinese intelligence services are recruiting students, stealing American research and engaging in harassment of dissidents at U.S. universities, according to a new report by the National Counterintelligence and Security Center.

September 1, 2025
This photo provided by the U.S. Space Force shows the X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle-7 (OTV-7), the U.S. Space Force's dynamic unmanned spaceplane, successfully deorbited and landed at Vandenberg Space Force Base, Calif., March 7, 2025. (United States Space Force via AP) ** FILE **

Space Force launches X-37B space plane

The Space Force on Thursday conducted the latest launch into space of the X-37B space plane, known formally as the orbital test vehicle.

August 28, 2025
Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, speaks with reporters in the James Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House, Wednesday, July 23, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

DNI revokes clearance of former Biden intelligence chief

Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard has revoked the security clearances of former White House National Security Council intelligence chief Maher Bitar, who as a congressional aide played a role in President Trump's 2020 impeachment.

August 21, 2025