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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.

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President Trump announced earlier this month that messaging app WeChat and social media app TikTok are threats to national security. (Associated Press)

Inside the Ring: Trump set to ban WeChat

The widely used Chinese language messaging app WeChat is facing a U.S. government ban for American users and possibly for corporations abroad, despite intense lobbying by tech companies.

August 19, 2020
In this Oct. 31, 2019 photo, man uses his smartphone as he stands near a billboard for Chinese technology firm Huawei at the PT Expo in Beijing. Chinese tech giant Huawei kept its global business growing for almost a decade while Washington piled sanctions on the company and lobbied its allies to keep the company out of telecom networks. Now, Huawei is starting to suffer in earnest as the Trump administration steps up efforts to slam the door on access to Western components and markets in a widening feud with Beijing over technology and security. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)

U.S. tightens screws on Huawei sanctions

The Trump administration on Monday imposed new restrictions on sales of microchips to China's Huawei Technologies aimed at further curtailing the company's ability to build smartphones.

August 17, 2020
U.S. President Donald Trump, right, and Chinese President Xi Jinping are greeted by children waving flowers and flags during a welcome ceremony at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, Thursday, Nov. 9, 2017. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)

Frenemies at the gate: U.S. granted security access to China, Iran

Foreign nationals from countries such as China and Iran were granted security clearances by the U.S. government agency in charge of broadcasting, jeopardizing national security, according to officials and internal documents from the U.S. Agency for Global Media.

August 8, 2020
The Apple logo is shown on a sign hanging in front of a new Apple Store, Thursday, July 28, 2016, in the Williamsburg section in the Brooklyn borough of New York. The store opens to the public Saturday. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)

Top U.S. tech executives face grilling on China dealings

America's technology giants came under fire from House Republicans last week, accused of working with China and in the case of Google, indirectly helping the Chinese military improve targeting for a new stealth fighter jet.

August 2, 2020
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Singaporean national admits to spying for China

A Singaporean national pleaded guilty Friday to operating as a covert Chinese intelligence agent in U.S. who recruited an Army officer, and targeted State Department and Pentagon officials as unwitting agents.

July 26, 2020
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo speaks at the National Constitution Center about the Commission on Unalienable Rights, Thursday,  July 16, 2020, in Philadelphia. (Brendan Smialowski/Pool via AP)

Mike Pompeo China speech defends Trump hawkish position

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo this week will deliver a major speech on the shortcomings of American foreign policy toward China, arguing that the record clearly supports President Trump's new and tougher approach to Beijing.

July 21, 2020
U.S. Attorney General William P. Barr speaks at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Museum in Grand Rapids, Mich., Thursday, July 16, 2020. The United States has become overly reliant on Chinese goods and services, including face masks, medical gowns and other protective equipment designed to curb the spread of the coronavirus, Attorney General Barr said Thursday. (Nicole Hester/Mlive.com/Ann Arbor News via AP)

Attorney General Barr hits corporate America’s appeasement of China

China is engaged in an "economic blitzkrieg" aimed at replacing America as the world's leading power, Attorney General William P. Barr said Thursday, asserting that the U.S. and Beijing are locked in an ideological battle that will determine whether the current democratic, free market system is replaced by China's dictatorial, communist system.

July 16, 2020
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced new restrictions on Chinese telecommunications executives on Wednesday. The move specifically targets the controversial company Huawei. (Associated Press)

Inside the Ring: Pompeo hits Huawei execs

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Wednesday announced new visa restrictions on Chinese telecommunications executives, including those from the controversial Huawei Technologies.

July 15, 2020
In this photo provided by U.S. Navy, the USS Ronald Reagan (CVN 76) and USS Nimitz (CVN 68) Carrier Strike Groups steam in formation, in the South China Sea, Monday, July 6, 2020. China on Monday, July 6, accused the U.S. of flexing its military muscles in the South China Sea by conducting joint exercises with two U.S. aircraft carrier groups in the strategic waterway.(Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Jason Tarleton/U.S. Navy via AP) ** FILE **

U.S. rejects nearly all of Beijing’s South China Sea claims

The Chinese government's expansive claims to own most of the South China Sea are illegal under international law, the Trump administration said Monday as it ramped up U.S. efforts to undermine Beijing's increasingly militarized activities in the strategic waterway.

July 13, 2020
In this file photo dated Tuesday, Sept. 26, 2017, U.S. chief technology officer at the White House, Michael Kratsios, attends a press conference during a G-7 Industry ministers meeting, in Turin, Italy. Technology adviser Michael Kratsios at the major technology conference WebSummit in Portugal on Thursday, Nov. 7, 2019, warned about China exporting authoritarianism globally in parallel with its rise as a tech power. (Alessandro Di Marco/ANSA FILE via AP) ** FILE **

White House tech adviser gets Pentagon CTO post

President Trump has designated his White House technology adviser to take up the influential post of chief technology officer (CTO) at the Pentagon, according to White House and Pentagon officials.

July 13, 2020