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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

"Today, China allows no such transparency for the world's fastest-growing nuclear arsenal," wrote Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Marshall Billingslea, the special presidential envoy for arms control, in an op-ed for Newsweek on Monday. (ASSOCIATED PRESS)

U.S. officials press China over growing nuclear arsenal

China is engaged in a nuclear arms buildup and is stonewalling the international community regarding its strategic weapons intentions, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and President Trump's chief arms control negotiator said Monday.

January 4, 2021
In this photo released by Xinhua News Agency, a medical worker injects a man with a COVID-19 vaccine at a healthcare center in Beijing, China, Saturday, Jan. 2, 2021. China authorized its first homegrown COVID-19 vaccine for general use on Dec. 31, 2020, adding another shot that could see wide use in poorer countries as the virus surges back around the globe. (Peng Ziyang/Xinhua via AP)

China excludes elderly from vaccine rollout

Chinese officials announced this week they have begun mass vaccinations against the coronavirus pandemic but are limiting shots to people aged 18 to 59, leaving the elderly in the lurch, according to state media.

January 4, 2021
In this December 1988 file photo, a police officer walks past the wreckage in Lockerbie, Scotland, of Pan Am Flight 103 from London to New York. Scotland's criminal appeals body said Wednesday, March 11, 2020, that the family of the Libyan man jailed for the 1988 bombing of an airliner over the Scottish town of Lockerbie can launch a posthumous appeal against his conviction. (AP Photo/File)

U.S. files new charges against Libyan bomber of Pan Am Flight 103

A former Libyan intelligence official has been charged with building the suitcase bomb that blew apart Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, killing 270 people in 1988, the Justice Department announced Monday, the 32nd anniversary of the horrific terrorist attack.

December 21, 2020
Michael Pack

Michael Pack defends reforms at Voice Of America, Radio Free Asia

Michael Pack, the embattled chief executive officer of the Voice Of America and other U.S. government foreign broadcast outlets, defended his efforts to overhaul what he called political "biased" and poorly run radio stations that were failing to follow their organizing charters.

December 14, 2020
Rep. Eric Swalwell, California Democrat, argues with administration and intelligence officials who call China the greatest threat facing the U.S. (Associated Press/File)

Eric Swalwell’s China views raise security questions

Rep. Eric Swalwell, a liberal California Democrat who last year for a short time was a Democratic presidential candidate, is under fire for his relationship with a Chinese national suspected of being an agent of the Ministry of State Security, the Chinese intelligence service.

December 9, 2020
In this file photo, Chinese president Xi Jinping, center, waves after he is greeted by Ambassador Peter A. Selfridge, left, Chief of Protocol of the United States, upon his arrival at the White House in Washington, Thursday, March 31, 2016. (Andrew Harnik/AP) **FILE**

China agents in U.S. government helped influence policy, academic says

China influenced American policies for decades through a covert network of "old friends" -- sympathizers and agents -- who had penetrated the highest levels of the U.S. government and financial institutions before the Trump administration, according to an academic linked to the Chinese government.

December 6, 2020
Former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger is one of the 10 members of the Pentagon's Defense Policy Board who will be replaced. He was one of the pro-China holdovers from the Obama administration. (Associated Press/File)

Henry Kissinger, 9 others leave Defense Policy Board

After this column first disclosed the large number of pro-China officials and holdovers from the Obama administration sitting on the Pentagon's Defense Policy Board, the board has been belatedly purged and new advisers will be named in the coming days.

December 2, 2020
Presumptive President-elect Joseph R. Biden has said he would return to an Obama-era policy of reducing the role of nuclear weapons in the U.S. (Associated Press)

Inside the Ring: Biden, Democrats to scale back nukes

The federal government's $1.2 trillion program to upgrade U.S. nuclear forces is in jeopardy with the election of presumptive President-elect Joseph R. Biden and a Congress that could be led in both chambers by Democrats.

November 25, 2020
The guided missile destroyer, U.S.S. Barry. The warship is one of four destroyers sent to the Mediterranean. (credit: U.S. Navy)

Michael Studeman visit shatters another Taiwan taboo

The Trump administration is stepping up pressure on China with the unprecedented visit to Taiwan by a senior military intelligence officer and the transit of a guided-missile destroyer through the Taiwan Strait.

November 23, 2020