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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

China's President Xi Jinping waves following the inauguration of new Macao leader Sam Hou Fai, unseen, following the inauguration, marking the 25th anniversary of Macao's handover from Portugal to China, in Macao Friday, Dec. 20, 2024. (Tyrone Siu/Pool Photo via AP) ** FILE **

China working on unique sub-launched drone

Two Chinese research institutes are developing drones launched from submarines capable of both underwater and aerial transit, according to a report in a Chinese scientific journal. The new submarine-launched drone is said to be part of Beijing's plan to counter U.S. military drone strikes - both underwater and aerial - in the early phases of a Chinese invasion of Taiwan.

January 23, 2025
John Ratcliffe, President-elect Donald Trump's choice to be the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency, appears before the Senate Intelligence Committee for his confirmation hearing, at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, Jan. 15, 2025. (AP Photo/John McDonnell)

Ratcliffe to review CIA analysis on Havana Syndrome

John Ratcliffe, CIA director-nominee, told the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence on Wednesday that he will aggressively review CIA analysis on the mysterious conditions suffered by overseas intelligence personnel and whether they were by enemy-directed energy weapons.

January 16, 2025
This July 16, 1945, file photo shows the mushroom cloud of the first atomic explosion at Trinity Test Site near Alamogordo, N.M. A visit by The head of the National Nuclear Security Administration, Lisa Gordon-Hagerty coincides with the 75th anniversary of the Trinity Test in southern New Mexico, which marked the world's first atomic blast on July 16, 1945. She's scheduled to lead a commemoration on Thursday, July 16, 2020, at the historic V-Site at Los Alamos National Laboratory, where early testing and some assembly of the atomic bomb took place. (AP Photo/File)

U.S. completes nuclear gravity bomb upgrade

The warplane-dropped nuclear gravity bomb known as the B61 has been fully modernized with a new precision guidance system, the Energy Department's National Nuclear Security Administration, or NNSA, announced this week.

January 9, 2025
FILE - A Taiwan national flag flutters near the Taipei 101 building at the National Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Memorial Hall in Taipei, Taiwan, May 7, 2023. (AP Photo/Chiang Ying-ying, File)

Taiwan says Chinese-owned ship damaged undersea internet cable

A Chinese-owned ship is being accused of damaging an undersea internet cable connecting Taiwan to outlying islands, according to reports from the region, following accusations of a similar cable-cutting incident by China in Europe's Baltic Sea just weeks ago.

January 6, 2025