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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

Chinese President Xi Jinping inspects the troops ahead of 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)

China ends ‘hide-and-bide’ military strategy

The Chinese Communist Party and its armed wing, the People's Liberation Army, last month began a major shift away from the 40-year-old strategy known as "hide and bide" -- keeping a low profile while advancing military and economic power -- according to an Air Force think tank report.

October 8, 2025
A truck burns on a street in Culiacan, Sinaloa state, Thursday, Jan. 5, 2023. (AP Photo/Martin Urista, file)

DEA threat report identifies enemies, targets of Trump’s new drug war

Criminal cartels in Mexico and gangs in Venezuela posing a major narcotics trafficking and security threat to the United States are being attacked as narco-terrorists under the Trump administration's new military-backed war on drugs, according to the Drug Enforcement Administration's latest counterdrug threat assessment.

October 3, 2025
This undated file photo shows the Los Alamos National Laboratory in Los Alamos, N.M. (The Albuquerque Journal via AP, File)

Energy Department silent on warhead pit production

The Energy Department's National Nuclear Security Administration is not saying whether the Los Alamos National Laboratory has met a legal requirement to produce "war reserve" plutonium pits needed to keep the U.S. nuclear warhead arsenal ready for deterrence or conflict.

October 2, 2025
President Donald Trump speaks with reporters before departing on Marine One from the South Lawn of the White House, Tuesday, Sept. 30, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Trump touts strategic missile submarine power

President Trump on Tuesday talked about his reasons for dispatching two U.S. strategic missile submarines to locations near Russia following veiled nuclear threats from Moscow.

October 1, 2025
Posters for the proposed Golden Dome for America missile defense shield are displayed before an event with President Donald Trump in the Roosevelt Room at the White House, Monday, May 12, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein) ** FILE **

Trump’s Golden Dome triggers Putin’s fears of U.S. space weapons

Russian President Vladimir Putin voiced alarm over President Trump's plan to deploy space weapons as part of a missile defense shield called Golden Dome and expressed concerns that the defenses will neutralize Moscow's offensive nuclear forces, according to Russian state media reports.

September 30, 2025
Posters for the proposed Golden Dome for America missile defense shield are displayed before an event with President Donald Trump in the Roosevelt Room at the White House, Monday, May 12, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein) ** FILE **

Inside Trump’s policy to prioritize advanced technologies

President Trump adopted a new policy for aggressively developing advanced technologies, including artificial intelligence and quantum communications, according to a White House memorandum sent to all federal agencies on Monday.

September 25, 2025
Cars drive along the Las Vegas Strip, Saturday, Aug. 2, 2025, in Las Vegas. (AP Photo/John Locher) ** FILE **

Statewide Nevada government hack linked to advanced cybercriminals

Two cybercriminal groups known for conducting sophisticated network hacking operations globally are key suspects in a major statewide ransomware attack that disrupted Nevada government computer operations earlier this month, according to cybersecurity experts.

September 24, 2025
In this photo released by the U.S. Air Force, Capt. Ryan Vickers stands for a photo to display his new service tapes after taking his oath of office to transfer from the U.S. Air Force to the U.S. Space Force at Al-Udeid Air Base, Qatar, Sept. 1, 2020. (Staff Sgt. Kayla White/U.S. Air Force via AP, File)

Space Force wants to avoid damaging space war

Space Force intelligence officials said this week that the risk of a conflict in space involving China is a major worry because tests, incidents or other events could quickly escalate to a major debris-causing fight that would severely disrupt the usability of space.

September 24, 2025
In this image released by the Department of Defense on Wednesday, Feb. 22, 2023, a U.S. Air Force U-2 pilot looks down at a suspected Chinese surveillance balloon as it hovers over the United States on Feb. 3, 2023. (Department of Defense via AP) ** FILE **

U.S. sanctions Chinese spy balloon maker

The Commerce Department's Bureau of Industry and Security this week placed 32 foreign companies, including 23 in China, on its blacklist of sanctioned firms for activities that threaten America's security.

September 18, 2025
Workers on scaffolding repaint the NASA logo near the top of the Vehicle Assembly Building at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla., May 20, 2020. (AP Photo/John Raoux, File)

Trump order on NASA seeks to block China

President Trump last month designated NASA and several other agencies as requiring national security protection based on their primary function of serving national security, including intelligence, counterintelligence and investigative work.

September 18, 2025