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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

Some of the 18 Taiwanese-built Indigenous Defensive Fighters and one U.S.-made E-2T airborne warning plane are displayed at Chingchuankang military base in Taichung, central Taiwan Wednesday November 22, 1995 for their commissioning ceremony. (75 miles) southwest of Taipei. (AP Photo/Eddie Shih, File)

PLA: War games practice for a Taiwan takeover

China's People's Liberation Army finished its latest round of saber-rattling military exercises near Taiwan on Wednesday, prompting statements of concern from Japan and Australia.

December 31, 2025
Armoured vehicles take part in a military parade to commemorate the 80th anniversary of Japan's World War II surrender held in front of Tiananmen Gate in Beijing, Wednesday, Sept. 3, 2025. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)

Massive Chinese military buildup threatens U.S. homeland

The Chinese military is continuing a massive, decades-long arms buildup, including a shift in nuclear force doctrine that increases the danger of a direct attack on the U.S., according to the Pentagon's annual China military power report.

December 24, 2025
Former New York Governor Kathy Hochul aide Linda Sun and her husband, Christopher Hu, arrives at Brooklyn federal court, Nov. 13, 2025, in New York. (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura)

Mistrial declared in Chinese influence case in New York

A federal judge in New York declared a mistrial in the case of a former aide to two governors who is charged with acting as an unregistered Chinese agent who received kickbacks for influencing the state government.

December 23, 2025
Japan's new Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi speaks during a press conference at the prime minister's office in Tokyo, on Oct. 21, 2025. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko, Pool) ** FILE **

Backing Japan over China radar lock on jets

The State Department on Tuesday offered its first muted backing for Japan over an incident last week involving a threatening radar illumination of two Japanese fighter jets by two Chinese fighters.

December 11, 2025
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang speaks during a press conference at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) CEO summit in Gyeongju, South Korea, Friday, Oct. 31, 2025. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)

Trump ends controls on Nvidia chips that DOJ says will boost China’s military

President Trump this week allowed Nvidia to sell its advanced H200 microchips to China -- a decision that came the same day his Justice Department announced arrests in connection with a criminal ring smuggling the same chips to China, where the Chinese military was to use the high-end contraband.

December 10, 2025
Commander of US Indo-Pacific Command Adm. Samuel Paparo delivers a speech during the opening ceremony of Super Garuda Shield 2025, an Indonesia-US annual large-scale joint military exercise that brings together forces from multiple countries, in Jakarta, Indonesia Monday, Aug. 25, 2025. (AP Photo/Tatan Syuflana)

Indo-Pacific Command admiral set to wage AI-powered warfare

Information warfare, drone strikes and advanced weapons are becoming more lethal through artificial intelligence and will provide key advantages in a future war with China or other adversaries, the commander of the Indo-Pacific Command said Saturday.

December 6, 2025