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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

Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen has been accused by Chinese media of promoting formal independence from Beijing. (Associated Press/File)

U.S. fears China attack on Taiwan

Senior American officials are increasingly worried that stepped-up Chinese threats against democratic Taiwan are signs that Beijing is planning a future military takeover of the island -- a move that would trigger a major U.S.-Chinese conflict.

June 17, 2020
People gather for a vigil for the victims of the 1989 Tiananmen Square Massacre at Victoria Park in Causeway Bay, Hong Kong, Thursday, June 4, 2020, despite applications for it being officially denied. China is tightening controls over dissidents while pro-democracy activists in Hong Kong and elsewhere try to mark the 31st anniversary of the crushing of the pro-democracy movement in Beijing's Tiananmen Square. (AP Photo/Vincent Yu)

Zoom under fire for muzzling accounts of China critics

The popular videoconferencing platform Zoom is under fire after the U.S. company shut down an account used by dissidents in the United States and China to host an online vigil marking the 1989 Tiananmen massacre.

June 11, 2020
Secretary of State says Chinese leaders are threatening to punish the British bank HSBC and to cancel plans to build nuclear power plants in Britain unless the government allows Huawei Technologies to help build a 5G telecommunications network there. (Associated Press/File)

Mike Pompeo accuses China of bullying HSBC

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo this week stepped up his criticism of the Chinese Communist Party, accusing Beijing of using "coercive bullying tactics" against a leading British bank.

June 10, 2020
Participants holds candles during a vigil for the victims of the 1989 Tiananmen Square Massacre at Victoria Park in Causeway Bay, Hong Kong, Thursday, June 4, 2020, despite applications for it being officially denied. China is tightening controls over dissidents while pro-democracy activists in Hong Kong and elsewhere try to mark the 31st anniversary of the crushing of the pro-democracy movement in Beijing's Tiananmen Square. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)

Mike Pompeo, Hong Kong protesters mark Tiananmen Square anniversary

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo honored pro-democracy protesters behind mass protests that ended with a Chinese military massacre in June 1989, even as a new generation of pro-democracy activists took to the streets in Hong Kong on Thursday to mark the crackdown.

June 4, 2020
“The People’s Republic of China continues to make specious and destabilizing claims designed to extend its maritime area in the South China Sea,” Kelly Craft, said U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations. (Associated Press)

U.S. protests China’s sea claim at U.N.

U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Kelly Craft put the world body on notice this week that Chinese maritime claims in the South China Sea are illegal and must be rejected.

June 3, 2020
President Donald Trump, left, North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, center, and South Korean President Moon Jae-in, right, walk together at the border village of Panmunjom in Demilitarized Zone, South Korea, Sunday, June 30, 2019. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh) **FILE**

U.S. indicts North Koreans, Chinese for illegal financial deals

U.S. prosecutors have indicted a group of 28 North Koreans and five Chinese nationals part of a global network of companies charged with circumventing U.S. sanctions by covertly accessing the American financial system, according to court papers unsealed Thursday.

May 28, 2020
Kizzmekia Corbett (left) accompanied President Trump on a tour in early March of the Viral Pathogenesis Laboratory at the National Institutes of Health. (Associated Press/File)

NIH defends Wuhan virus research funding

The National Institutes of Health recently responded to a request for comment on an Australian scientific study that said the coronavirus causing the outbreak of COVID-19 globally appears to have been manipulated in a Wuhan laboratory.

May 27, 2020