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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 image made from video broadcasted by North Korea's KRT, military parade is held to mark the 75th anniversary of the country’s ruling party in Pyongyang Saturday, Oct. 10, 2020.(KRT via AP)

North Korea shows off new ICBM

North Korea's communist regime on Saturday unveiled yet another intercontinental-range ballistic missile capable landing warheads in the United States, according to state media reports.

October 10, 2020
President Trump is shown here in a Sept. 30, 2020 file photo walking out of the Oval Office. (Associated Press)  **FILE**

Donald Trump counters China on rare earth minerals

President Trump has signed an executive order aimed at countering China's drive to corner the international market on rare earth minerals -- key elements used in high-tech products that are the backbone of the U.S. economy and key weapons systems.

October 7, 2020
This March 27, 2008, file photo shows the Pentagon in Arlington, Va.  (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File) ** FILE **

Defense Science Board: Pentagon needs ‘Gray Zone’ weapons

The Pentagon needs better weapons for waging warfare below the level of conventional military conflict -- such as information and intelligence warfare capabilities -- to win against strategic competitors, according to a report by the Defense Science Board.

September 30, 2020
In this Nov. 2, 2016, file photo, the FBI's J. Edgar Hoover headquarter building in Washington. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen, File)  **FILE**

FBI sounds alarm on personal data theft by China

China is engaged in massive data mining in the United States and likely has stolen personal information on nearly half of the entire U.S. population, FBI Director Christopher Wray revealed this week.

September 18, 2020
Information about China's biological arms program has reached U.S. intelligence agencies, thanks to a defector who is now in European protection. (Associated Press/File)

Second China defector gives biological weapons information

U.S. intelligence agencies recently increased their knowledge of China's covert biological weapons program with the help of a defector from the People's Liberation Army, according to people familiar with the incident.

September 16, 2020
In this March 22, 2019 file photo, an American flag flies outside the Department of Justice in Washington.  (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Chinese, Malaysian hackers charged with targeting over 100 U.S. companies

Federal authorities on Wednesday announced three indictments charging five Chinese nationals and two Malaysians with conducting criminal and political hacking operations tacitly approved by the Chinese government and linked to the Ministry of State Security intelligence service.

September 16, 2020