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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

President Donald Trump speaks in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington on Tuesday, May 20, 2025. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon) **FILE**

China opposing Trump’s Golden Dome missile defense

China is working against President Trump's Golden Dome plan for a nationwide strategic missile defense system covering the United States as destabilizing and threatening its large missile forces, an Air Force think tank report says.

August 19, 2025
In this photo provided by the North Korean government, its leader Kim Jong-un speaks during a launch ceremony of a destroyer named Kang Kon at the Rajin shipyard in Rason, North Korea, Thursday, June 12, 2025. Independent journalists were not given access to cover the event depicted in this image distributed by the North Korean government. The content of this image is as provided and cannot be independently verified. Korean language watermark on image as provided by source reads: "KCNA" which is the abbreviation for Korean Central News Agency. (Korean Central News Agency/Korea News Service via AP)

North Korean network breached, say two hackers

Two hackers identified by the code names Saber and cyber0rg published a recent report saying they had breached a North Korean hacker network, according to a report in the cybersecurity outlet Phrack.

August 14, 2025
President and CEO of Nvidia Corp. Jensen Huang delivers a speech during the Computex 2025 exhibition in Taipei, Taiwan, Monday, May 19, 2025. (AP Photo/Chiang Ying-ying, File)

Trump faulted for loosening AI chip sales to China

Communist founder Vladimir Lenin once said: "The capitalists will sell us the rope with which we will hang them." That appears to be taking place in the Trump administration with the recent loosening of restrictions on selling advanced artificial intelligence microchips to China.

August 14, 2025
In this photo, taken from video and provided by the Philippine coast guard, a damaged Chinese coast guard ship, right, is seen beside a Chinese navy vessel, left, after they accidentally collided while chasing a Philippine fisheries boat near Scarborough Shoal in the disputed South China Sea on Monday Aug. 11, 2025. (Philippine Coast Guard via AP)

China embarrassed by South China Sea ship collision

Chinese officials remain largely silent on the South China Sea collision between a People's Liberation Army navy destroyer and a Chinese coast guard cutter this week that analysts say likely led to Chinese injuries and deaths.

August 13, 2025
The seal of the Central Intelligence Agency at CIA headquarters in Langley, Va., April 13, 2016. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)

Hackers breach intelligence website used by CIA

Unidentified hackers recently compromised a major intelligence website used by the CIA and other agencies for submitting details of sensitive contracts, according to the National Reconnaissance Office, the spy satellite service that runs the site.

July 24, 2025
U.S. Space Force Department of the Air Force coat of arms as a pin on a black uniform jacket close up. KYIV, UKRAINE - JUNE 26, 2024 File photo credit: Mehaniq via Shutterstock.

U.S. Space Force preps in the Pacific

Hundreds of Space Force Guardians are holding the new service's largest ever military exercises in Hawaii this week, in drills aimed at preparing for "orbital warfare."

July 17, 2025