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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 is seen leading other top officials pledging their vows to the party on-screen during a gala show ahead of the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Chinese Communist Party in Beijing, June 28, 2021. Chinese government instructions posted on social media reveal that Chinese Communist Party propaganda organs have been ordered to avoid criticizing Russia's invasion of Ukraine. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan, File)

China restricts media criticism of Russia

Chinese government instructions posted on social media reveal that Chinese Communist Party propaganda organs have been ordered to avoid criticizing Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

February 23, 2022
President Joe Biden listens during an event in the South Court Auditorium in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on the White House complex, Tuesday, Feb. 22, 2022, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Intel praised, Biden faulted in Ukraine crisis

Security analysts familiar with internal U.S. government thinking say most of the blame for the Ukraine crisis and Russian invasion this week in seizing two eastern regions rests with President Biden and grew out of the chaotic U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan in August.

February 23, 2022
China's Foreign Ministry spokesperson Wang Wenbin speaks during the daily briefing in Beijing on Friday, June 11, 2021. China on Friday said the U.S. and Australia were "flexing their muscles” with recent naval drills in the South China Sea, underscoring Beijing’s sensitivity over the strategic waterway it claims as its own. (AP Photo/Liu Zheng)

China: Moscow has ‘legitimate’ security concerns with NATO, Ukraine

China on Tuesday appeared to back Russian grievances over Ukraine and NATO following Russian President Vladimir Putin's recognition Monday of two separatist enclaves in the eastern part of the country, noting what it called Moscow's "legitimate security concerns."

February 22, 2022
This June 14, 2018, file photo shows an FBI seal on a podium before a news conference at the agency's headquarters in Washington. The FBI and other federal government agencies are increasingly looking to counter cyberthreats through tools other than criminal indictments. That's according to the bureau’s top cyber official. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana, File)

FBI sting in Navy nuclear secrets case may have links to China

The FBI sting operation that ensnared an Annapolis U.S. Navy engineer and his wife in a conspiracy to sell nuclear submarine secrets involved an unidentified foreign nation that could be China, The Washington Times has learned.

February 18, 2022
Ukrainian servicemen load Javelin anti-tank missiles, delivered as part of the United States of America's security assistance to Ukraine, into military trucks at the Boryspil airport, outside Kyiv, Ukraine, Friday, Feb. 11, 2022. The Polish military, meanwhile, has made an urgent request for 1,000 U.S. Army Javelin anti-tank missiles earlier this month but Pentagon red tape is delaying efforts to get large numbers of the missiles to the Ukrainian military. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)

Poles want 1,000 U.S. anti-tank missiles for Ukraine

The Polish military made an urgent request for 1,000 U.S. Army Javelin anti-tank missiles earlier this month, but Pentagon red tape is delaying efforts to get large numbers of the missiles to the Ukrainian military, "Inside the Ring" has learned.

February 16, 2022
Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe looks on as President Donald Trump presents the Presidential Medal of Freedom to former football coach Lou Holtz, in the Oval Office of the White House, Thursday, Dec. 3, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci) ** FILE **

Ex-DNI: Durham disclosures based on intel of Democratic conspiracy

U.S. intelligence provided to special counsel John Durham described a Democratic political conspiracy to subvert Donald Trump's presidential campaign and administration by falsely linking the ex-president to the Russian government, former Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe said Monday.

February 14, 2022
A Ukrainian serviceman provides area security during a visit by Gen. Oleksandr Pavliuk, commander of the Joint Forces Operation, to frontline positions outside Avdiivka, Donetsk region, eastern Ukraine, Wednesday, Feb. 9, 2022. French President Emmanuel Macron said Tuesday that Russian President Vladimir Putin told him that Moscow would not further escalate the Ukraine crisis. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)

State Dept.: Russia set to provoke Ukraine invasion

The State Department is warning that intelligence information indicates Russia is set to conduct a covert disinformation operation in Ukraine that will be used as a pretext for an invasion.

February 9, 2022
In this Feb. 7, 2020, photo, people wearing masks attend a vigil for Chinese doctor Li Wenliang, in Hong Kong. The outpouring of grief and rage sparked by Li's death was an unusual — and for the Chinese Communist Party, unsettling — display in China's tightly monitored civic space. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung) **FILE**

Late Chinese doctor who alerted world on COVID outbreak remembered

The medical doctor who tried to sound the alarm on the initial outbreak of COVID-19 in late 2019 and later died from the disease was remembered Monday, two years after Chinese authorities forced him to confess to making illegal internet statements that reflected badly on the country.

February 7, 2022