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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

A screen shows a Chinese aircraft carrier at the opening of the Western Pacific Navy Symposium in Qingdao, eastern China's Shandong province on Monday, April 22, 2024. Zhang Youxia, one of China's top military leaders took a harsh line on regional territorial disputes, telling an international naval gathering in northeastern China on Monday that the country would strike back with force if its interests came under threat. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

China launches third aircraft carrier

China began sea trials for the third aircraft carrier for its People's Liberation Army on Wednesday, Chinese state media reported. The official Chinese military website announced the carrier sea trials in a three-paragraph dispatch from Shanghai.

May 1, 2024
The American and Chinese flags wave at Genting Snow Park ahead of the 2022 Winter Olympics, Feb. 2, 2022, in Zhangjiakou, China. China on Tuesday, June 13, 2023, criticized new sanctions imposed by the United States on companies believed to be aiding the violation of human rights or threatening American security, including hypersonic weapons development and training Chinese military pilots. (AP Photo/Kiichiro Sato, File)

U.S. research helps China’s hypersonic missiles

Chinese organizations involved in developing hypersonic missiles and related technologies have benefited from American research, according to a report made public earlier this month by an Air Force think tank.

April 29, 2024
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken, left, meets with Chinese President Xi Jinping in the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, China on June 19, 2023. Blinken is starting three days of talks with senior Chinese officials in Shanghai and Beijing this week. It comes as U.S.-China ties are at a critical point over numerous global disputes. (Leah Millis/Pool Photo via AP) **FILE**

PLA gets major information warfare upgrade

Chinese President Xi Jinping unveiled a major reorganization of the People's Liberation Army last week, setting up a new strategic service arm in charge of information warfare, according to the Beijing Defense Ministry and state media.

April 24, 2024
A Tomahawk cruise missile is fired off the battleship USS Wisconsin toward a target in Iraq, in the Persian Gulf on Jan. 17, 1991. (AP Photo/John McCutcheon, File)

Army deploys long-range missiles to China’s doorstep

The Army recently dispatched a new long-range missile system to the Philippines for the first time since the U.S. in 2019 exited the Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces Treaty, which banned such deployments.

April 17, 2024
A delegate walks to his seat as they arrive at the closing ceremony for China's National People's Congress at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, on Monday, March 13, 2023. (AP Photo/Andy Wong, File)

Chinese government linked to illicit fentanyl trade

Beijing's communist government is supporting illicit trade in deadly fentanyl by offering tax rebates and other incentives to manufacturers in China, according to a bipartisan report by the House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party.

April 16, 2024