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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

The DR-8 drone, covered in a camouflage tarp on a flatbed truck, was seen for the first time in photographs published on Chinese social media. (Associated Press/File)

China’s supersonic DR-8 drone revealed

China's military is rapidly developing unmanned aircraft and recently disclosed one of its newest systems: a supersonic reconnaissance drone designed to defeat air and missile defenses.

September 18, 2019
Chinese Communist Party guidelines dated June 12 "forbid any positive reports on the Hong Kong people's appeals for democracy and freedom." (Associated Press/File)

China’s Hong Kong propaganda rules revealed

The ruling Communist Party of China issued internal guidelines recently mandating that state-run propaganda outlets avoid any positive reports on the pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong.

August 21, 2019
Medical staff and protesters carry an injured man as they face off with police near the Shum Shui Po police station in Hong Kong on Wednesday. Police fired tear gas at the protesters. Meanwhile, five people were arrested over violence at the airport. (Associated Press)

Inside the Ring: Chinese military preparing crackdown

U.S. intelligence agencies are closely watching Chinese troop movements in Shenzhen near Hong Kong where several hundred thousand People's Liberation Army and People's Armed Police troops are massing along with armored vehicles.

August 14, 2019
Sen. Marco Rubio, Florida Republican, said Huawei is linked to Chinese intelligence-gathering operations and is required to turn over information it collects. (Associated Press/File)

Marco Rubio fights Huawei

Sen. Marco Rubio is confident that Congress will codify in law Trump administration restrictions imposed on China's telecommunications giant Huawei Technologies, a company the Florida Republican says poses a national security threat to the United States.

July 24, 2019
Former State Department official Susan Thornton was among the more prominent signers of a letter to President Trump calling for a return to the appeasement-oriented policies toward China. (Associated Press/File)

Donald Trump’s China policy defended

The Trump administration is pushing back against a group of former officials and China experts, including former State Department official Susan Thornton, for an open letter criticizing the administration's tougher U.S. policy toward China.

July 10, 2019
Kiron Skinner, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo's director of policy and planning, came under fire in April for remarks she made about China. (Associated Press)

Inside the Ring: State Department: No civilization clash with China

The State Department is pushing back against a Chinese disinformation campaign that has sought to portray the Trump administration's new tougher policy toward Beijing as a racist iteration of the outdated, post-Cold War "clash of civilizations" theory.

July 3, 2019
A cybersecurity study of Huawei equipment found that 55% of the Chinese company's hardware devices tested contained at least one backdoor access point. (Associated Press/File)

China’s back doors in Huawei devices

An investigation of the telecommunications equipment produced by China's Huawei Technologies Ltd. has uncovered numerous cases of secret access points that could allow Chinese intelligence to conduct cyberoperations through the equipment.

June 26, 2019
The Philadelphia chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations has pressured the U.S. Army War College into postponing a speech by an expert on the historical roots of Islamic terrorism. (Associated Press)

Ray Ibrahim’s war college speech canceled

A Muslim activist group has pressured the U.S. Army War College into postponing a speech by Ray Ibrahim, an expert on the historical roots of Islamic terrorism, after the group falsely labeled him as a racist and "Islamophobe," he said.

June 12, 2019
A 2012 discussion in which President Obama told Russian President Dmitry Medvedev that he was facing his "last election" and as a result would have "more flexibility" once reelected is explained in "From Cold War to Hot Peace," a book by Michael McFaul, a former U.S. ambassador to Russia. (Associated Press/File)

Barack Obama and Russian collusion

Former U.S. Ambassador to Russia Michael McFaul provided new clues recently about a controversial open-mic comment in 2012 by President Obama, widely viewed as secret collusion to limit U.S. missile defenses.

June 5, 2019
Director of National Intelligence Daniel Coats testified in February about North Korea, saying it will seek to keep its nuclear arsenal and is unlikely to give up either nuclear weapons or production capabilities. (Associated Press)

Inside the Ring: Trump slaps Dan Coats over testimony

President Trump's recent order conferring new intelligence power on Attorney General William Barr was a slap at Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats -- viewed within the White House as too accommodating of the intelligence bureaucracy.

May 29, 2019
Russia's military is developing several strategic weapons that — while not directly violating New START — appear to be a circumvention of the treaty. (Associated Press/File)

New START extension in doubt

Senior Trump administration officials told Congress recently that the United States is reviewing whether to seek an extension of the 2010 New START strategic weapons treaty amid concerns about Russian treaty violations and China's growing nuclear arsenal.

May 22, 2019
China's exports fell unexpectedly in April, adding to pressure on Beijing ahead of negotiations on ending a tariff war with Washington over Chinese technology ambitions. (Associated Press/File)

China’s trade talks filled with deception

China is playing games with President Trump by delaying the contentious trade talks that have been underway for months, according to an administration official.

May 8, 2019
Acting Defense Secretary Patrick M. Shanahan, flanked by Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Gen. Joseph F. Dunford (left) and acting Deputy Secretary of Defense David Norquist, warned a House Appropriations subcommittee Wednesday about China's aggressive military buildup. (Associated Press)

Patrick Shanahan outlines China threat

Acting Defense Secretary Patrick M. Shanahan told a House hearing on Wednesday that countering the threat posed by China is one of the Pentagon's highest priorities.

May 1, 2019