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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

A Chinese military helicopter flies close to a Philippine Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic (BFAR) aircraft above Scarborough Shoal on Feb. 18, 2025. (AP Photo/Joeal Calupitan, File)

Tensions rise at disputed South China Sea shoal

Chinese-Philippine tensions were raised over China's recent placement of some type of floating platform near the Scarborough Shoal, a resource-rich islet claimed by both Beijing and Manila.

June 25, 2026
Chinese President Xi Jinping looks on during a signing ceremony with Russian President Vladimir Putin at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, Wednesday, May 20, 2026. (Maxim Shemetov/Pool Photo via AP)

Intel agencies set to show Xi Jinping’s hidden wealth

American intelligence agencies are working on a report to Congress that will disclose new details about the wealth of Chinese Communist Party leaders, including Party General Secretary Xi Jinping, who is also president, according to the Office of the Director of National Intelligence.

June 24, 2026
A ballistic missile is displayed by Iran's Revolutionary Guard during a pro-government demonstration at Enqelab-e-Eslami (Islamic Revolution) Square in downtown Tehran, Iran, Tuesday, April 21, 2026. (Alireza Masoumi/ISNA via AP)

Iran says its missiles not part of peace talks

The Iranian government announced Thursday that limits on its large force of ballistic missiles will not be part of negotiations with the U.S. during talks following the signing of a peace deal.

June 18, 2026
Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard speaks with reporters in the James Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House in Washington on July 23, 2025. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon) ** FILE **

DNI rebukes faulty intelligence analyses of Havana Syndrome

Outgoing Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard revoked two U.S. intelligence reports on brain injuries suffered by U.S. diplomats and intelligence personnel called Havana Syndrome, an official with the Office of the Director of National Intelligence said Friday.

June 12, 2026
Chinese military personnel in a high-tech government hacking room work on stealing state secrets from rival countries in hybrid war. File photo credit: DC Studio via Shutterstock.

FBI shutters covert Chinese websites targeting secrets

Federal authorities shut down 13 internet domains on Wednesday, which were said to be used by China for operations to obtain classified and sensitive U.S. government information, the Justice Department said.

June 10, 2026
Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard speaks with reporters in the James Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House in Washington on July 23, 2025. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon) ** FILE **

ODNI set to release COVID origin intel

Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, in the coming days, is expected to release declassified intelligence documents on the origin of the COVID-19 virus -- a disclosure that comes after years of disputed and controversial assessments on whether the pandemic originated in a Chinese laboratory or came from a wild animal.

June 10, 2026
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. A government report is outlining how spy services from China, Russia and Iran are hard at work trying to steal trade secrets and proprietary information from U.S. companies, government labs and universities. (AP Photo/Andy Wong, File)

FBI, MI5 warn against stepped-up Chinese military spying

Chinese military intelligence services are using Western professional networking platforms and online job sites to obtain secrets, according to a threat notice issued by the FBI, Britain's MI5 security service and three other allied security agencies.

June 4, 2026