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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

Russian President Vladimir Putin gestures while addresses a meeting of the Council of Legislators under the Russian Federal Assembly at the Tauride Palace, in St. Petersburg, Russia, Wednesday, April 27, 2022. (Alexander Demyanchuk, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)

Army reports on Putin’s dysfunctional war

Russian President Vladimir Putin badly miscalculated in launching the invasion of Ukraine and falsely believed his army could rapidly overrun the country, according to an analysis of the war published by the Army War College.

April 27, 2022
Online video showing a Chinese jet crash over the weekend reveals that the Chinese air force appears to be receiving flight training from Russian instructors, according to U.S. and Chinese social media reports.

Russian pilot seen in China jet trainer crash

Online video showing a Chinese jet crash over the weekend reveals that the Chinese air force appears to be receiving flight training from Russian instructors, according to U.S. and Chinese social media reports.

April 25, 2022
In this file photo, China's People's Liberation Army displays DF-26 ballistic missiles in a parade. Over just the past several months, major revelations about the extent of China's hypersonic weapons capabilities, its nuclear arms stockpile, and even the size of its navy have sparked concerns that Washington may not have a full window into exactly what its 21st-century rival has up its sleeve, or what may be under development deep inside the communist nation. (Associated Press/File)

China preps for ‘metaverse warfare’

China's People's Liberation Army is preparing to wage high-technology warfare in the metaverse, the emerging amalgam of virtual reality, the internet and the real world, according to a report by an Air Force think tank.

April 13, 2022
This undated file photo provided by the University of Kansas shows researcher Franklin Feng Tao. Opening statements begin Tuesday, March 22, 2022, in the trial of Tao, a researcher accused of concealing work he was doing for China while employed at the University of Kansas. (Kelsey Kimberlin/University of Kansas via AP) **FILE**

Jury convicts Kansas professor accused of hiding China ties

A University of Kansas professor was found guilty this week of concealing ties to a Chinese government-linked university, and in a second case a Chinese national was sentenced to more than two years in prison for stealing agricultural trade secrets.

April 8, 2022
In this photo provided by China's Xinhua News Agency, Chinese President Xi Jinping, right, pose for photos with Russian President Vladimir Putin at the Diaoyutai State Guesthouse in Beijing, China, on Feb. 4, 2022. China has described reports and images of civilian killings in Ukraine as disturbing, and urged that they be further investigated, even while declining to blame Russia. That's drawn questions about the resiliency of Beijing's support for Moscow, but speculation that it is weakening appears to be misplaced. (Li Tao/Xinhua via AP, File)

State Department works to counter Ukraine disinformation from China

China's propaganda and disinformation operations are actively promoting pro-Russian narratives about the invasion of Ukraine, supporting Moscow's positions and blaming the U.S. for the conflict, according to the State Department center involved in trying to counter the operations.

April 7, 2022
Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison speaks to the media during a meeting with Quad members, India, Japan, United States and Australia, in Melbourne, Feb. 11, 2022. India and Australia’s trade ministers say a shared security partnership with the United States and Japan has helped them strike a trade deal that Australia hopes will reduce its dependence on exports to China. (Darrian Traynor/Pool Photo via AP) **FILE**

AUKUS weapons technology sharing detailed

The Biden administration disclosed new details this week on the implementation of a new weapons and technology cooperation agreement between Australia, Britain and the United States under the recently formed AUKUS alliance.

April 6, 2022
This image provided by the U.S. Air Force shows a B-2 stealth bomber flying over the Pacific Ocean, before arriving at Andersen Air Force Base, Guam, in 2006. A B-2 stealth bomber crashed Saturday Feb. 23, 2008 at Anderson Air Force Base in Guam. The two pilots aboard the bomber ejected before the crash and are safe the U.S. Air Force said. A board of Air Force officers will investigate what happened. Each B-2 bomber costs about $1.2 billion to build. All 21 stealth bombers are based at Whiteman Air Force Base in Missouri, but the Air Force has been rotating several of them through Guam since 2004, along with B-1 and B-52 bombers. (AP Photo/U.S. Air Force photo, Staff Sgt. Bennie J. Davis III)

Pentagon to scrap nuclear gravity bomb as part of Biden review

The Pentagon will eliminate the sole nuclear gravity bomb in the U.S. strategic weapons arsenal capable of blasting deeply buried underground structures as part of the Biden administration's review of strategic weapons policy, according to U.S. officials.

April 4, 2022
In this Dec. 18, 2019, file photo, Rep. Doug Lamborn, R-Colo., speaks at the Capitol in Washington. Lamborn on Monday, Jan. 4, 2021, joined the state's newest member of Congress, Republican Lauren Boebert, in saying he will vote against certifying Democrat Joe Biden's presidential election victory in a joint session of Congress on Wednesday, Jan. 6. (House Television via AP, File)

European commander: Keep nuke cruise missile, gravity bomb

The commander of U.S. forces in Europe, Air Force Gen. Tod Wolters, told Congress Wednesday that his forces in Europe need a nuclear-armed cruise missile and the 1980s-era B83 nuclear gravity bomb to maintain deterrence.

March 30, 2022
This handout photo provided by the U.S. Navy shows a common hypersonic glide body (C-HGB) launching from the Pacific Missile Range Facility, in Kauai, Hawaii, March 19, 2020, during a Department of Defense flight experiment. The department is working in collaboration with industry and academia to field hypersonic war-fighting capabilities. (Luke Lamborn/U.S. Navy via AP) ** FILE **

U.S. lags China, Russia in hypersonic arms race

Pentagon efforts to rapidly build hypersonic missiles to compete with similar systems of U.S. adversaries took a second hit last week after Russia reportedly used a hypersonic missile in a bomb strike against Ukraine.

March 23, 2022
In this file photo, China's military personnel perform near a display showing the navy's aircraft carrier in a segment of a gala show ahead of the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Chinese Communist Party in Beijing on Monday, June 28, 2021. China sailed its newest aircraft carrier near a Taiwanese island in the Taiwan Strait on March 18, 2022, in a saber-rattling signal to the United States hours before a video call between President Biden and Chinese President Xi Jinping. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan) ** FILE **

China sails carrier through Taiwan Strait in signal to U.S.

China sailed its newest aircraft carrier near a Taiwanese island in the Taiwan Strait on Friday in a saber-rattling signal to the United States hours before a video call between President Biden and Chinese President Xi Jinping.

March 18, 2022
U.S. Air Force Lt. Gen. Kenneth S. Wilsbach, 7th AF commander, speaks with Airmen assigned to the 51st Logistics Readiness Squadron during an immersion tour at Osan Air Base, Republic of Korea, Jan. 11, 2019. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Kelsey Tucker) ** FILE **

Pacific general vows ‘robust’ response to China attack

China needs to learn the lessons being taught to the Russian military in Ukraine and the dangers Beijing's military forces will face from any attack on Taiwan or another regional nation, the commander of the Pacific Air Forces said this week.

March 16, 2022
In this file photo, Chinese President Xi Jinping attends an event commemorating the 110th anniversary of Xinhai Revolution at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on Oct. 9, 2021. China is engaged in a massive nuclear weapons buildup that includes hundreds of new strategic missiles, and Chinese President Xi Jinping is preparing the military to retake Taiwan, the nation’s most senior intelligence official testified before Congress on March 8, 2022. (AP Photo/Andy Wong, File)

Chinese leader tested by Russian invasion of Ukraine

Chinese President Xi Jinping is being tested by the Russian invasion of Ukraine as the Communist Party chief seeks to support Russian President Vladimir Putin's regime in the face of crippling Western sanctions and the prospect that those sanctions will hit China for any stepped-up support of the Kremlin in the intensifying regional war.

March 15, 2022