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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

U.S. customs inspectors recently seized a 13-ton shipment of human hair that is suspected to be from Uighur concentration camps in China. (Customs and Border Protection)

U.S. warns on Chinese slave labor

The Trump administration warned American businesses on Wednesday against using products from western China made with prison labor.

July 1, 2020
The Pentagon revealed 20 Chinese companies linked to the People's Liberation Army operating directly or indirectly in the U.S. (ASSOCIATED PRESS)

Pentagon: Major Chinese companies have close military links

The Pentagon on Thursday revealed the names of 20 Chinese companies linked to the People's Liberation Army operating directly or indirectly in the United States, in a bid to halt Beijing from obtaining military-related goods.

June 25, 2020
China rolled out its DF-17 last year and announced that the hypersonic glide vehicle, which poses a threat to electronics, is close to deployment. (Associated Press/File)

China hypersonic EMP threat

China is developing electromagnetic pulse (EMP) weapons that can fry all electronics over vast distances and could deploy the weapons on its new hypersonic missiles, according to a report by a security group.

June 24, 2020
U.S. and Chinese national flags are hung outside a hotel during the U.S. presidential election event, organized by the U.S. Embassy in Beijing. (AP Photo/Andy Wong) **FILE**

FCC shutters Chinese ‘border blaster’ on propaganda fears

The Federal Communications Commission has rejected a permit that would have allowed Chinese-language broadcasts from a Mexican radio station in Baja California over concerns that the station would beam Chinese government propaganda into the United States.

June 22, 2020
Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen has been accused by Chinese media of promoting formal independence from Beijing. (Associated Press/File)

U.S. fears China attack on Taiwan

Senior American officials are increasingly worried that stepped-up Chinese threats against democratic Taiwan are signs that Beijing is planning a future military takeover of the island -- a move that would trigger a major U.S.-Chinese conflict.

June 17, 2020
People gather for a vigil for the victims of the 1989 Tiananmen Square Massacre at Victoria Park in Causeway Bay, Hong Kong, Thursday, June 4, 2020, despite applications for it being officially denied. China is tightening controls over dissidents while pro-democracy activists in Hong Kong and elsewhere try to mark the 31st anniversary of the crushing of the pro-democracy movement in Beijing's Tiananmen Square. (AP Photo/Vincent Yu)

Zoom under fire for muzzling accounts of China critics

The popular videoconferencing platform Zoom is under fire after the U.S. company shut down an account used by dissidents in the United States and China to host an online vigil marking the 1989 Tiananmen massacre.

June 11, 2020
Secretary of State says Chinese leaders are threatening to punish the British bank HSBC and to cancel plans to build nuclear power plants in Britain unless the government allows Huawei Technologies to help build a 5G telecommunications network there. (Associated Press/File)

Mike Pompeo accuses China of bullying HSBC

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo this week stepped up his criticism of the Chinese Communist Party, accusing Beijing of using "coercive bullying tactics" against a leading British bank.

June 10, 2020