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Guy Taylor

gtaylor@washingtontimes.com

Guy Taylor is the National Security Editor at The Washington Times, overseeing the paper's State Department, Pentagon and intelligence coverage and driving the daily Threat Status newsletter. He has reported from dozens of countries and been a guest on the BBC, CNN, NPR, FOX, C-SPAN and The McLaughlin Group.
A series Mr. Taylor led on Russia's attempts to influence the 2016 U.S. election was recognized with a Gerald R. Ford Journalism Prize for Distinguished Reporting on the Presidency, and a Society for Professional Journalists award. In 2012, he won a Virginia Press Association award reporting from Mexico.Prior to joining The Times in 2011, Mr. Taylor was supported by the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting and the Fund For Investigative Journalism. He wrote for a variety publications, from the St. Louis Post-Dispatch to Salon, Reason, Prospect, the Daily Star of Beirut, the Jerusalem Post and the St. Petersburg Times. He also served as an editor at World Politics Review, wrote for America's Quarterly and produced videos and features for Agence France-Presse.Mr. Taylor holds an M.S. in Global Security Studies from Angelo State University and a B.A. from Clark University. He was part of a team who won a Society of Professional Journalists award for their reporting on the terrorist attacks of 9/11.
He can be reached at gtaylor@washingtontimes.com.

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Articles by Guy Taylor

Chinese President Xi Jinping attends a session at the G20 Leaders' Summit in Nusa Dua, Bali, Indonesia, Wednesday, Nov. 16, 2022. (Willy Kurniawan/Pool Photo via AP)

G-20 statement on Russia’s war sparks narrative debate with Beijing

Chinese President Xi Jinping went along with the Biden administration's push for the Group of 20 leading economies to deliver a declaration firmly condemning Russia's war in Ukraine, but Chinese media sharply criticized the way the declaration was presented as a diplomatic victory for Washington.

November 16, 2022
Windows of an apartment building are illuminated during a blackout in central Kyiv, Ukraine, Monday, Nov. 14, 2022. (AP Photo/Andrew Kravchenko)

Russian missiles blamed as two die in strike inside Poland

Russian missiles apparently strayed into Polish territory on Tuesday, killing at least two people in the NATO nation in a development that threatens to dramatically escalate tensions between the alliance and Moscow nearly nine months into Russia's war in Ukraine.

November 15, 2022
Police officers stand at the outer entrance of the Urumqi No. 3 Detention Center in Dabancheng in western China's Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region on April 23, 2021. State officials took AP journalists on a tour of a "training center" turned detention site in Dabancheng sprawling over 220 acres and estimated to hold at least 10,000 prisoners - making it by far the largest detention center in China and among the largest on the planet. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein, File)

Conference promotes religious freedom as a human right

The Chinese Communist Party is "at war with all faiths," according to former U.S. Ambassador-at-Large for International Religious Freedom Sam Brownback, who says America and its democratic allies must "stand firmly" in promoting religious freedom as a "common human right."

November 12, 2022
President Joe Biden speaks in the Roosevelt Room of the White House on Aug. 26, 2022, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci) **FILE**

Biden’s big trip: Uncertainty at home, thorny issues abroad dominate global tour

President Biden faces thorny challenges on a major overseas trip that began Friday at a major climate summit in Egypt, where he walked a tightrope calling for global fossil fuel reductions even though his administration has been pushing for months for increased oil production from difficult Middle Eastern allies such as Saudi Arabia.

November 8, 2022
A Taiwanese Air Force F16V fighter jet takes part in night drill from the Hualien Airbase in Taiwan's southeastern Hualien county on Wednesday, Aug. 17, 2022. Experts say a lot can be gleaned from what China has done, and not done, in the large-scale military exercises it held in response to U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's visit to Taiwan, followed by Taiwan's own drills and Beijing announcing more maneuvers planned. (AP Photo/Johnson Lai, File)

SPECIAL REPORT: China’s threat to Taiwan sparks debate over U.S. ‘One China’ policy

China's threat to absorb Taiwan -- through possible military action if necessary -- has sent nerves soaring in Taipei, while also sparking debate a half a world away in Washington over the long-held U.S. policy of "strategic ambiguity" over just exactly what the American military would do to protect the island democracy from a Chinese invasion.

October 19, 2022
Taiwanese soldiers operate a Oerlikon 35mm twin cannon anti-aircraft gun at a base in Taiwan's southeastern Hualien county on Thursday, Aug. 18, 2022. Taiwan is staging military exercises to show its ability to resist Chinese pressure to accept Beijing's political control over the island. (AP Photo/Johnson Lai)

Threat of Chinese invasion is ‘real,’ Taiwan’s foreign minister says

The world must prepare for the prospect that the Chinese militarily could invade Taiwan as soon as next year, the island democracy's foreign minister warned Thursday, saying Taiwan's people and defense forces are drawing inspiration from Ukraine's fight against Russia as they confront the idea of an attack by its massive neighbor across the Taiwan Strait.

September 29, 2022