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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

In this photo released by Xinhua News Agency, Xie Feng, China's new ambassador to the United States, speaks to the media upon his arrival at the John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York, the United States, on May 23, 2023. (Li Rui/Xinhua via AP) **FILE**

China’s ambassador to U.S. makes rare visit to Pentagon

China's top diplomat in the U.S. visited the Pentagon this week for a rare meeting with the top U.S. defense official for Asia, signaling a possible opening of military communications between Washington and Beijing since the Chinese side shut them down nearly a year ago.

July 13, 2023
Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy addresses a media conference during a NATO summit in Vilnius, Lithuania, Wednesday, July 12, 2023. NATO leaders gathered Wednesday to launch a highly symbolic new forum for ties with Ukraine, after committing to provide the country with more military assistance for fighting Russia but only vague assurances of future membership. (AP Photo/Mindaugas Kulbis)

Zelenskyy’s frustrations with NATO boil over at summit

Tensions over Ukraine's desire to join NATO burst into the open as the alliance's annual summit began Tuesday, with President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, who is a special guest, sharply criticizing the bloc's failure to offer a firm date for his country to join.

July 11, 2023
A building of a Buddhist monastery destroyed by what villagers said was an airstrike by the ruling military in Nyaung Kone village on Tuesday, June 27, 2023. (Pale Entertainment via AP)

China views Myanmar as hot spot in Cold War with Washington

A violent civil war between the China-backed military junta ruling Myanmar and a patchwork of pro-democracy rebels in the Southeast Asian nation is not getting much attention in the West, but is increasingly viewed by China's leadership as a strategic "Cold War" frontline in its global competition with the United States.

July 3, 2023
Ukrainian soldiers on a Swedish CV90 infantry fighting vehicle at their positions near Bakhmut, Donetsk region, Ukraine, Sunday, June 25, 2023. (Roman Chop via AP)

Wagner insurrection creates opening for Ukrainian counteroffensive

Ukraine's highly touted counteroffensive to regain territory seized by Russian invaders had shown little progress in its initial days, but that was before the near-coup in Moscow and the possible removal from the battlefield of thousands of Wagner Group mercenaries, a key backbone of Russian ground operations over the past year.

June 28, 2023
Russian President Vladimir Putin is seen on monitors as he addresses the nation after Yevgeny Prigozhin, the owner of the Wagner Group military company, called for armed rebellion and reached the southern city of Rostov-on-Don with his troops, in Moscow, Russia, Saturday, June 24, 2023. The armed rebellion by a powerful mercenary group against the Russian military was over in less than 24 hours, but the disarray within the enemy’s ranks was an unexpected morale-boosting gift for Ukraine – at a time when its armed forces needed it the most. (Pavel Bednyakov, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP) **FILE**

Putin image fades in face of rebellion

Blowback from a powerful Russian mercenary group's insurrection against the Kremlin swirled in Moscow on Sunday, laying bare the depths of an internal crisis facing Vladimir Putin and fueling speculation the war in Ukraine will eventually lead to his downfall.

June 25, 2023
India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi waves as he leaves after addressing a joint meeting of Congress at the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, June 22, 2023. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

India’s Modi praises U.S. democracy in address to Congress

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi praised the foundations of American democracy in an address to a joint meeting of Congress on Thursday, emphasizing the importance of the partnership between the world's two biggest democracies on a day of summitry that mixed geopolitics and commercial opportunity.

June 22, 2023
Russian soldiers march toward Red Square to attend a Victory Day military parade in Moscow, Russia, Tuesday, May 9, 2023, marking the 78th anniversary of the end of World War II. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)

China TikTok figure fingered in ‘deepfake’ anti-U.S. Russian soldier videos

A "deepfake" video series purporting to track a Russian special operations soldier's adventures in Ukraine was actually created by a TikTok figure in China. The series was used to promote narratives of Russia-China friendship to hundreds of thousands of followers on the Chinese version of the social media site.

June 21, 2023
India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi gestures during a news conference following a bilateral meeting with Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese at Admiralty House in Sydney, Australia, Wednesday, May 24, 2023. (Dean Lewins/Pool Photo via AP) ** FILE **

Countering China key focus as Biden hosts India’s PM Modi

The Biden administration will roll out the red carpet for Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who arrives in Washington on Wednesday. The White House hopes the trip will strengthen U.S.-India ties in the face of China's rising aggression in the Indo-Pacific.

June 19, 2023
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken speaks at a chiefs of mission reception in the East Room of the White House in Washington, on June 13, 2023. Blinken and Chinese Foreign Minister Qin Gang shared concerns on a phone call Wednesday, June 14, 2023, ahead of a planned visit by the U.S. official to China meant to shore up relations. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

Blinken’s China visit to carry burden of blame for tensions

Secretary of State Antony Blinken heads to China on Friday for a fence-mending visit amid historically high friction between Washington and Beijing over Taiwan, brazen international spying attempts, and security and economic clashes with the U.S. and its allies across Asia.

June 14, 2023
Streets are flooded in Kherson, Ukraine, Tuesday, Jun 6, 2023 after the Kakhovka dam was blown up overnight. The wall of a major dam in a part of southern Ukraine has collapsed, triggering floods, endangering Europe's largest nuclear power plant and threatening drinking water supplies. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)

Ukraine and Russia trade blame for massive dam collapse

Russian and Ukrainian officials hurled blame at each other over the collapse Tuesday of a major dam in southern Ukraine -- an incident that quickly triggered floods, threatened drinking water and added a vexing dimension to the war.

June 6, 2023
In this photo taken between Feb. 26 and March 1, 2023, and provided by the North Korean government, North Korean leader Kim Jong-un speaks during a meeting of the ruling Workers’ Party at its headquarters in Pyongyang, North Korea. Independent journalists were not given access to cover the event depicted in this image distributed by the North Korean government. The content of this image is as provided and cannot be independently verified. Korean language watermark on image as provided by source reads: "KCNA" which is the abbreviation for Korean Central News Agency. (Korean Central News Agency/Korea News Service via AP) ** FILE **

North Korea targets U.S. intel figures on a secret cyber hit list

Details of a secret North Korean cyber hit list are spreading in Washington, with a widening slate of high-level current and former U.S. intelligence officials, media executives and national security scholars finding themselves in the hackers' crosshairs.

June 2, 2023