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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

Uyghurs and other students listen to an instructor during a class at the Xinjiang Islamic Institute, as seen during a government organized visit for foreign journalists, in Urumqi in western China's Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region on April 22, 2021. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein) **FILE**

State Department details China genocide against Uyghurs

The State Department is declaring that Chinese government continues to engage in genocide and crimes against humanity through the repression of predominantly Muslim Uyghurs and other minorities in western China.

May 12, 2021
Adm. Philip S. Davidson, as Indo-Pacific Command chief, organized a letter in early 2020 asking for "ammunition in the ongoing war of narratives." (Associated Press/File)

Commanders’ info war request met with silence

Sixteen months after nine combatant commanders asked the director of national intelligence to help them counter Chinese and Russian disinformation, intelligence agencies have done little to respond.

May 5, 2021
Security personnel manned the entrance of the Wuhan Institute of Virology during a Wednesday, Feb. 3, 2021, visit by a team from the World Health Organization. (Associated Press) **FILE**

Defense Department officials: No sign yet U.S. funds went to suspect Chinese lab

Pentagon officials offered a qualified denial Tuesday saying they have found evidence that any of the nearly $40 million in defense money given to a non-government organization may have been used for research at the Chinese military-linked Wuhan Institute of Virology, a suspected potential origin point for the COVID-19 pandemic.

May 4, 2021
A security person moves journalists away from the Wuhan Institute of Virology after a World Health Organization team arrived for a field visit in Wuhan in China's Hubei province on Wednesday, Feb. 3, 2021. The WHO team is investigating the origins of the coronavirus pandemic has visited two disease control centers in the province. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

Pentagon officials: Wuhan Institute of Virology did not get NGO funds

Pentagon officials offered a qualified denial Tuesday when questioned on whether any of the nearly $40 million in defense money given to a non-government organization may have been used for research at the Chinese military-linked Wuhan Institute of Virology, a suspected potential origin point for the COVID-19 pandemic.

May 4, 2021
A U.S. Navy's P-8 Poseidon is parked on the tarmac at Ngurah Rai International Airport as seen from the window of Indonesian Navy's maritime patrol aircraft of 800 Air Squadron of the 2nd Air Wing of Naval Aviation Center (PUSPENERBAL), in Bali, Indonesia, Saturday, April 24, 2021. The American reconnaissance plane was expected to join the search for Indonesian navy submarine KRI Nanggala that went missing after its last reported dive Wednesday off the resort island. (AP Photo/Eric Ireng)

U.S. approves $2.4 billion sale of maritime patrol jets to India

The Biden administration announced it will sell six P-8 maritime patrol aircraft and related gear to India worth $2.42 billion. The jet sale was announced by the State Department and the Pentagon's Defense Security Cooperation agency notified Congress of the sale Friday.

April 30, 2021
In this Oct. 1, 2019, file photo, spectators wave Chinese flags as military vehicles carrying DF-41 ballistic missiles roll during a parade to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the founding of Communist China in Beijing. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein) ** FILE **

China nuclear buildup faster than expected, U.S. now believes

China's military is advancing its nuclear arsenal and delivery systems so fast the Defense Intelligence Agency has had to move up its estimate of when Beijing will double its warhead stockpile, the general in charge of military intelligence told Congress on Thursday.

April 29, 2021
This image taken with a slow shutter speed on Oct. 2, 2019, and provided by the U.S. Air Force shows an unarmed Minuteman 3 intercontinental ballistic missile test launch at Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif. (Associated Press/File) **FILE**

Nuclear deterrence for China needs upgrade

The American strategy for deterring nuclear war is outdated and needs to be revised to address more likely scenarios, such as nuclear conflict growing out of a conventional war with China or Russia, according to Paul Bracken, a political science professor at Yale University.

April 28, 2021
Adm. Charles A. Richard, commander of U.S. Strategic Command, said that he has "seen no indications of any compromise" in the security of America's nuclear stockpile rising out of the SolarWinds hack, which the intelligence community believe is linked to the Russian government. (Associated Press/File) **FILE**

Adm. Charles Richard warns over China nuclear expansion

China's military is engaged in a "very rapid" expansion of nuclear forces, which threatens U.S. security and is complicating efforts to deter both Russia as well as China, the commander of the Strategic Command told Congress on Wednesday.

April 21, 2021
Director Avril Haines of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) testifies during a House Intelligence Committee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, April 15, 2021. (Al Drago/Pool via AP)

Avril Haines, William Burns rip WHO report on COVID-19 origins

U.S. intelligence agencies disagree with the findings of a recent joint World Health Organization-Chinese government probe that dismissed the theory that the COVID-19 virus outbreak could have resulted from an accidental escape from a Chinese laboratory, officials told Congress on Thursday.

April 15, 2021