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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

Outgoing Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe has accused U.S. intelligence analysts of playing down China's role in interference with the Nov. 3 presidential election. (Associated Press/File)

John Ratcliffe: Intel on China politicized

Outgoing Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe dropped a political bombshell in a report issued in the final days of the Trump administration, accusing U.S. intelligence analysts of politicization by playing down China's role in interference with the Nov. 3 presidential election.

January 20, 2021
In this Dec. 22, 2019, file photo, a man holds a sign during a rally to show support for Uighurs and their fight for human rights in Hong Kong. People from western China who are targets of a Chinese government crackdown say they have been threatened and harassed in the United States. Those fleeing the crackdown on the predominantly Muslim Uighur ethnic group typically receive U.S. asylum. But Uighurs tell The Associated Press and human rights groups they still afraid amid threats aimed at them and their families back in China. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man, File)

U.S. declares China engaged in genocide against Uighurs

The U.S. government on Tuesday declared China's communist government guilty of carrying out a policy of genocide and crimes against humanity for its mass repression campaign against Uighur minorities in western China.

January 19, 2021
China’s DF-26 ballistic missiles worry the U.S. because they can be fired from long ranges with enough precision to attack a moving ship. (Associated Press)

China nuclear weapons arsenal growth alarming, State Department warns

China has rapidly expanded its nuclear and conventional missile forces over the past decade, nearly tripling its ballistic missile production capability and deploying a wide array of nuclear and conventional missile systems, according to an intelligence assessment released by the State Department.

January 14, 2021
The findings from deadlocked task force studying the origin of SARS-CoV-2 are unlikely to be published before President Trump leaves office. (Associated Press/File)

Coronavirus origin divides task force

An interagency group of scientists and medical experts formed to study the origin of the coronavirus is deadlocked over how to report their conclusions in the waning days of the Trump administration.

January 13, 2021
In this photo released by Xinhua News Agency, Chinese President Xi Jinping speaks during a video conference with European leaders from Beijing on Wednesday, Dec. 30, 2020. European Union top officials and Chinese President Xi Jinping have concluded a long-awaited business investment deal with the potential to annoy the new American administration. (Li Xueren/Xinhua via AP)

Chinese propaganda hits U.S. after Capitol takeover

China stepped up anti-U.S. propaganda attacks this week, claiming the takeover of the Capitol by supporters of President Trump was a sign of the collapse of the American democratic system.

January 7, 2021
SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, is thought by an Israeli expert to have a genomic origin of a Chinese bat virus that underwent extensive adaptation to humans before infecting patient zero. (Associated Press/File)

Dany Shoham: Virus likely unnatural

Retired Israeli Lt. Col. Dany Shoham, who was among the first to suggest that the Wuhan coronavirus outbreak may be linked to China's military research, now believes there is a strong possibility that the virus escaped from a Chinese laboratory.

January 6, 2021
President Donald Trump arrives in the early morning hours, Tuesday, Jan. 5, 2021, at the White House in Washington, after returning from a rally in Dalton, Ga. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Trump executive order bans 8 Chinese apps

President Trump ordered the banning of eight Chinese software applications Tuesday over concerns Beijing is using the apps to spy on Americans and steal massive amounts of data to support its communist system.

January 5, 2021