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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

In this photo released by Xinhua News Agency, a J-20 stealth fighter jet performs an afterburner during the 14th China International Aviation and Aerospace Exhibition in Zhuhai in southern China's Guangdong province, Tuesday, Nov. 8, 2022. The Pentagon and the Chinese government are both keeping quiet for now on recent disclosures of two new fighters (not pictured) spotted on Chinese social media sites that defense analysts say appear to be Beijing's first advanced sixth-generation stealth fighters. (Deng Hua/Xinhua via AP)

Pentagon, China quiet on new PLA stealth jets shown online

The Pentagon and the Chinese government are both keeping quiet for now on recent disclosures of two new fighters spotted on Chinese social media sites that defense analysts say appear to be Beijing's first advanced sixth-generation stealth fighters.

December 30, 2024
A Chinese national flag flutters against office buildings in Shanghai, China, on April 14, 2016. (AP Photo/Andy Wong, File)

California political operative charged as illegal Chinese agent

A campaign official with a local California politician was charged with acting covertly as an illegal agent of communist China working to influence U.S. policy toward Taiwan in Beijing's favor, the Justice Department said Thursday.

December 19, 2024
HMAS Brisbane fires a Tomahawk Weapon System off the coast of San Diego, USA. (LSIS Daniel Goodman/Australian Defence Ministry)

China ominously mum over new exercises near Taiwan

China's People's Liberation Army is conducting large-scale military naval and warplane operations near Taiwan, but unlike in the past has remained silent on its activities this time.

December 11, 2024
Members of China's People's Liberation Army (PLA) Rocket Force march in formation during a parade to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the founding of Communist China in Beijing, Tuesday, Oct. 1, 2019. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein, File)

China missile test a key sign of Rocket Force power

China's People's Liberation Army Rocket Force is aggressively building up its missile forces with new and more lethal systems and with a heavy emphasis on deploying and building hypersonic missiles, according to defense officials.

December 4, 2024