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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

As vice president, Joseph R. Biden visited Chinese President Xi Jinping in Beijing. He called for intimate U.S. economic and trade integration with the emerging communist power. (Associated Press/File)

China uses global COVID-19 vaccine exports to one-up U.S.

The Biden administration says it is committed to strategically countering China on the global stage, but Beijing has already seized the public relations high ground in the soft-power fight to win friends and influence through strategically placed COVID-19 vaccine deliveries to countries in need.

March 4, 2021
Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny stands in a cage in the Babuskinsky District Court in Moscow, Russia, Saturday, Feb. 20, 2021. A Moscow court on Saturday considered Navalny's appeal against his prison sentence as the country faced a top European rights court's order to free the most prominent Kremlin foe. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)

Vladimir Putin aides sanctioned over Alexei Navalny poisoning

The Biden administration took its first major swipe at Vladimir Putin on Tuesday, coordinating with the European Union on a slate of sanctions on Kremlin officials close to the Russian president in retaliation for the poisoning and jailing of Alexei Navalny, Mr. Putin's most prominent domestic critic.

March 2, 2021
In this Oct. 27, 2011, file photo, then U.S. Vice President Joe Biden, right, offers his condolences to then Prince Salman bin Abdel-Aziz upon the death of his brother Saudi Crown Prince Sultan bin Abdul-Aziz Al Saud, at Prince Sultan palace in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. President Joe Biden is expected to speak to Saudi King Salman for the first time in Biden’s just over a month-old administration. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar) ** FILE **

Khashoggi killing report used to ‘recalibrate’ U.S-Saudi relations

The Biden administration's circulation of the U.S. finding that Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman ordered the 2018 killing of writer Jamal Khashoggi represents the latest in an ongoing effort to dial back U.S.-Saudi relations from the closeness of the Trump era.

February 28, 2021
In this Feb. 1, 2020, file photo Democratic presidential candidate former Vice President Joe Biden smiles as former Secretary of State John Kerry, left, takes the podium to speak at a campaign stop at the South Slope Community Center in North Liberty, Iowa. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File)

John Kerry held backchannel talks with Iran, Javad Zarif

President Trump in 2019 sought to open a back channel of communication with top Iranian officials and saw the U.N. General Assembly meeting in September as a potential opportunity to defuse escalating tension with Tehran, but the effort failed.

February 21, 2021
Secretary of State Antony Blinken speaks at the State Department, Thursday, Feb. 4, 2021, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci) **FILE**

China fumes as U.S., Asia ‘Quad’ allies talk strategy

Secretary of State Antony Blinken triggered a harsh reaction in China's state-controlled media Thursday by holding a conference call with counterparts from Asia's so-called "Quad" countries -- India, Japan and Australia -- to discuss joint strategy on a range of issues in the Indo-Pacific.

February 18, 2021
In this Jan. 28, 2021 file photo, President Joe Biden signs a series of executive orders in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington. Biden campaigned on raising the national minimum wage to $15 per hour and attached a proposal doing just that to the $1.9 trillion coronavirus pandemic relief bill. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci) **FILE**

Biden debuts on world stage as president with G-7, Munich meetings

President Biden's vow to expand U.S. engagement with allies will be put to the test later this week when he participates in a virtual meeting with leaders of the world's wealthiest democracies and then delivers remarks to the annual Munich Security Conference.

February 15, 2021
Chinese President Xi Jinping had warned at the World Economic Forum last month that the U.S. risked starting a “new Cold War” if they tried to rally the rest of the world against Beijing. (AP Photo/Andy Wong, File)

Joe Biden opts for Asia strategy used by Trump

President Biden has promised a full-blown reset of what he and his advisers see as the disastrous foreign policy of the Trump years, but when it comes to U.S. strategy for the Indo-Pacific, the Biden team has spent its first weeks in office borrowing from the last administration's playbook.

February 11, 2021
In this Dec. 11, 2019, file photo, Myanmar's leader Aung San Suu Kyi addresses judges of the International Court of Justice for the second day of three days of hearings in The Hague, Netherlands. Myanmar's military has taken control of the country under a one-year state of emergency and reports say State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi and other government leaders have been detained. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong, File)

Joe Biden threatens sanctions on Myanmar over military coup

President Biden threatened Monday to level sanctions against Myanmar in response to the military coup in the resource-rich Southeast Asian nation, whose instability risks igniting a new flashpoint of great-power tension between the U.S. and China.

February 1, 2021