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Bill Gertz

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

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

China expanding nuclear arms plants revealed

China is rapidly building up its nuclear forces, including the expansion of plutonium and uranium plants as part of a secretive, crash program to add warheads to its growing missile and bomber forces, according to declassified U.S. briefing slides obtained by The Washington Times.

November 12, 2020
President Donald Trump speaks while on a phone call with leaders of Sudan and Israel in the Oval Office of the White House, Friday, Oct. 23, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Donald Trump tees up executive orders as Joe Biden eyes post-inauguration reversals

President Trump signed an order on Thursday barring U.S. investments in Chinese companies owned or controlled by China's military, as he tees up a series of executive actions on school choice, immigration and other conservative priorities before Jan. 20 that would force presumptive President-elect Joseph R. Biden to work to reverse next year.

November 12, 2020
As vice president, Joseph R. Biden visited Chinese President Xi Jinping in Beijing. He called for intimate U.S. economic and trade integration with the emerging communist power. (Associated Press/File)

Joe Biden backs China appeasement

Presumptive President-elect Joseph R. Biden has indicated plans to continue vigorous American policies toward China, but his record suggests he will return to the appeasement policies toward Beijing of Democratic and Republican administrations before President Trump.

November 11, 2020
An MQ-9A Reaper drone is shown in this undated file photo. (U.S. Air Force photograph)  ** FILE **

MQ-9 Reaper drones sold to Taiwan

The Trump administration is stepping up efforts to bolster Taiwan's defenses, announcing this week that its latest arms sale package includes the first transfer of advanced Reaper drones capable of firing missiles. Four MQ-9 Reaper drones were approved for sale to Taiwan by the State Department in a package worth an estimated $600 million.

November 4, 2020