You already received the invitation, but simply remind you of these two wonderful stories that Bill was called by a member of the Russian Foreign Intelligence service a quote, “took of the CIA,” which sounds even nastier today. The last time Bill spoke at Westminster it was at the debut of another book of his, that one called i-War: War and Peace in the Information Age. Apropos of tonight, another book, The China Threat: How the People’s Republic Targets America. This is number eight, including Breakdown: How America’s Intelligence Failures Led to September 11. Now you all know that he’s an award-winning national security journalist and author of seven or now eight books? Bill Gertz:Įight books. Bill will be available to sign some copies after his presentation. I needn’t tell you about Bill Gertz’s book because it’s almost disappeared. China’s communist government also has criticized him for his news reports exposing China’s weapons and missile sales to rogues states. A senior CIA official once threatened to have a cruise missile fired at his desk at The Washington Times after he wrote a column critical of the CIA’s analysis of China. Vyachaslav Trubnikov, head of the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service, once called him a “tool of the CIA” after he wrote an article exposing Russian intelligence operations in the Balkans.

He last spoke at the Westminster Institute on his 2017 book, iWar: War and Peace in the Information Age. He is currently senior editor of The Washington Free Beacon, an online news outlet, and national security columnist for The Washington Times. How can it meet this challenge? About the speakerīill Gertz is an award-winning national security journalist and author of seven books, including Breakdown: How America’s Intelligence Failures Led to September 11 and The China Threat: How the People’s Republic Targets America. In fact, these misguided policies produced the emergence of a 21 st century challenge that may be as dangerous to the United States and its allies as the Soviet Union was. The Communist Party of China deceived the West into believing that its system and the Party-ruled People’s Liberation Army were peaceful and posed no threat. Forty years later the hope of producing a benign People’s Republic of China has evaporated. The United States’ approach to China since the Communist regime in Beijing began the period of reform and opening in the 1980s was based on a promise that trade and engagement with China would result in a peaceful, democratic state. Transcript available below About the topic Deceiving the Sky: Inside Communist China’s Drive for Global Supremacy

Deceiving the Sky by Bill Gertz