Bill Gertz
@BillGertz
Washington Times national security correspondent | Covers China | Latest book: Deceiving the Sky http://deceivingthesky.com
Twenty years ago I wrote The China Threat. Now I've written Deceiving the Sky: Inside Communist China's Drive for Global Supremacy. The most important book you can read on the threat posed by China. Now on sale at deceivingthesky.com

Xi Jinping (2012): "Our social system and ideology are fundamentally different from those of Western countries, which determines that our struggle and competition with them are irreconcilable, and thus inevitably long-term, complex, and sometimes extremely sharp. However, ...
Discussing the ‘outcomes’ or lack thereof with @peterstefanovic on @SkyNewsAust this morning with @isaacstonefish weighing in on the view from the US. I think the PM is putting our country in a difficult and dangerous position. youtu.be/o9gNqxvLVdE
Rubio says Trump is expected to meet with Chinese supreme leader Xi Jinping later this year despite differences over trade and Taiwan washingtontimes.com/news/2025/jul/…
Merger of European and US satellite service providers raises fears of Chinese disruption or interception of satellite communications washingtontimes.com/news/2025/jul/…
Comrade Zohran Mamdani, Socialist Party of America member, wrote romantic tale of 1917 Russian Revolution. Women marched for vote, he said. Left out: Revolution led to 70 years of brutal Soviet communist party. Who knows want happened to those women washingtontimes.com/news/2025/jul/…
Exclusive: Michael Reiter, the Palm Beach police chief who first uncovered Epstein’s sexual abuse of girls in 2004-8 investigation, tells The Washington Times his team found no “client list” & no girl said she had been trafficked to Epstein’s friends. washingtontimes.com/news/2025/jul/…
👀 “The United States has no road-mobile or rail-mobile missiles and has rejected mobile basing of ICBMs as potentially destabilizing.” Ah yes, even though Russia & China both have mobile ICBMs, it’d be “destabilizing” if we did too…😱🙄 washingtontimes.com/news/2024/mar/…
Drone warfare evolves from “death from above” in war on terror to a new type of strategic attack washingtontimes.com/news/2025/jul/…
This week's Inside the Ring @WashTimes: Trump loosens restrictions on AI chips sold to China in concession to Beijing; Japan Defense Minister warns on China threat; Space Force preps for war in the Pacific washingtontimes.com/news/2025/jul/…
"The Communist ideology is to destroy your social order. This has been their aim for 125 years and it has never changed; only the methods have changed a little."
Hey Brenden I sent three emails to the FCC press office seeking comment for a story I’m working on. Why have you not responded? Unprofessional
Federal law prohibits noncommercial stations—including PBS ones—from accepting money in exchange for airing political issue ads. I’ve asked the FCC’s enforcement team to determine whether or not that happened here. I would encourage PBS & NPR to focus more on how they managed…
This week's Inside the Ring column @WashTimes: Chinese hacker linked to massive Microsoft network intrusion arrested; Taiwan launches large scale war games simulating PLA strikes; Recent Chinese-Russian bomber patrol was a "clear" nuclear threat targeting Guam…
Obama’s cabal of anti-Trump intel operatives made sure Democratic Party hoax dossier got inside their parting-shot Russia report as Donald Trump took office in 2017. washingtontimes.com/news/2025/jul/…
Navy E-6B Mercury airborne command post and communications relay aircraft heading east over Nevada now. STOLE56. These jets are used to communicate with strategic ballistic missile subs

History's Warning to President Trump: Appease the Authoritarian Today, Pay in Blood Tomorrow : China With great respect to President Trump, whose relentless focus on national sovereignty and America First economic, trade, and foreign policy is vital, we must say plainly: the…
Feds take down a Chinese drug money laundering cell that took in $92 million in cash from Mexican cartels washingtontimes.com/news/2025/jul/…
A fair media would ensure coverage of the story of a heavily armed Antifa terror cell in North Texas that allegedly carried out an armed insurrection attack on the Fourth of July on an ICE facility. 10 members of the cell have been charged with terrorism and attempted murder…
These are the 10 alleged members of a north Texas Antifa terror cell accused of carrying out the attempted murder of federal officers at a shooting terrorist attack on an ICE facility on the Fourth of July in Alvarado, Texas. One local police officer was shot in the neck, and…
Why would he wish to turn New York City into a social basket-case like Uganda, which his now-rich parents fled to reach America in the first place? victorhanson.com/the-frightenin…
“The Intelligence Community is bloated and inefficient. The ‘tooth-to-tail’ ratio is absurdly out of balance. We have endless buildings in Washington filled with people staring at flat-screen computer monitors and relative handfuls down range actually running sources.”
The Deep State desperately wants to hold on to its control over the IC. This battle will decide the fate of the Deep State. andmagazine.substack.com/p/the-fight-fo…
Beijing signals Trump-Xi summit will hinge on US concessions on Taiwan. The president has vowed China will not invade the island on his watch washingtontimes.com/news/2025/jul/…