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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

President Donald Trump, right, points as reporters raise their hands to ask questions during a meeting with Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, obstructed at left, in the Cabinet Room of the White House in Washington on Monday, October 20, 2025. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci) **FILE**

Trump on China: Is a Taiwan deal in the works?

President Trump disclosed this week that talks with China could result in some type of deal on Taiwan, an unofficial U.S. ally facing the prospect of a Chinese military takeover.

October 22, 2025
The energy industry is expecting a large uptick in electricity consumption because of the growing use of power-hungry artificial intelligence systems, and lawmakers are looking for ways to prevent the cost burden from hitting ordinary consumers. AI concept file image credit: Blue Andy via Shutterstock.

AI modernizing nuclear warheads

The Energy Department's National Nuclear Security Administration is using artificial intelligence as part of an extensive modernization program for nuclear warheads.

October 16, 2025
State Department building in Washington D.C. ** FILE **

Arrested State Department adviser linked to China

An adviser to the State Department and Pentagon was arrested this week. He is suspected of providing information to Chinese officials, according to an FBI affidavit in the case.

October 15, 2025
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