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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

Military vehicles roll down during a parade to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the founding of Communist China in Beijing, Tuesday, Oct. 1, 2019. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

U.S. efforts to engage China labeled biggest strategic failure

The United States' "greatest strategic failure" took place after the end of the Cold War in the promotion of China, a policy of engagement that has now produced a new existential danger to the nation, according to a new book by two top China experts in the U.S.

March 13, 2024
Avril Haines, director of National Intelligence, testifies during the Senate Armed Services hearing to examine worldwide threats, Thursday, May 4, 2023, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Mariam Zuhaib)

Intel chief: China’s economic woes increase danger of war

China's significant economic problems are increasing the danger Beijing will strike out in a conflict against Taiwan or another regional adversary, the Biden administration's director of national intelligence warned in a threat assessment made public Monday.

March 11, 2024
Spectators wave Chinese flags as military vehicles carrying DF-41 nuclear ballistic missiles roll during a parade to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the founding of Communist China in Beijing on Oct. 1, 2019. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein, File)

China building new generation of mobile ICBMs

China is developing a new generation of mobile intercontinental ballistic missiles, part of a large-scale buildup of its nuclear arsenal, the commander of the U.S. Strategic Command recently disclosed to Congress.

March 6, 2024
Security personnel gather near the entrance of the Wuhan Institute of Virology during a visit by the World Health Organization team in Wuhan, China, Feb. 3, 2021. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan, File)

Documents reveal Canadian virologists’ work with PLA

Declassified Canadian government documents reveal that two China-born researchers at a high-security virus laboratory in Winnipeg worked secretly with China's People's Liberation Army and provided deadly virus samples to China.

March 6, 2024
Security personnel gather near the entrance of the Wuhan Institute of Virology during a visit by the World Health Organization team in Wuhan, China, Feb. 3, 2021. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan, File)

China grows domestic bio weapons tech industry

China is advancing its domestic, dual-use biological research with applications for the People's Liberation Army germ warfare programs, according to an open-source intelligence report.

February 28, 2024
Protesters hold up blank pieces of paper and chant slogans as they march to protest strict anti-virus measures in Beijing, Nov. 27, 2022. Thousands of people demonstrated across China in what came to be called the White Paper movement, after the blank sheets of paper protesters used to represent the country's strict censorship controls. One year later, China has all but forgotten the protests. The state reacted quickly, breaking up the marches with arrests and threats and ending COVID-19 controls. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

U.S. urged to do more to counter China’s growing censorship system

China's communist government has sharply increased censorship and information controls under President Xi Jinping, posing a growing threat to U.S. security and the free flow of information globally, according to a new report by a congressional China commission.

February 20, 2024
In this Sept. 21, 2016 file photo, Iran's Revolutionary Guard troops march in a military parade marking the 36th anniversary of Iraq's 1980 invasion of Iran, in front of the shrine of late revolutionary founder Ayatollah Khomeini, just outside Tehran, Iran. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi, File)

DIA report details Iranian weaponry sent to Yemen rebels

Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, the shock troops for the theocratic regime in Tehran, have supplied missiles and one-way attack drones to the Houthis in Yemen who are carrying out strikes on global shipping in the Red Sea and other targets in the Middle East, the Defense Intelligence Agency revealed in a report made public this month.

February 14, 2024