China and Russia Show Unity Against the West: Weekend Reads

Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping held their first in-person meeting in more than two years yesterday in Beijing and declared there’s no limit to the friendship between Russia and China.

The standoff between Washington and the Kremlin over Ukraine showed no sign of letting up. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov described as “delusional” U.S. claims that Moscow plans to produce a propaganda video purporting to show a Ukrainian attack on Russian-speaking people.

The crisis facing U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson deepened this week after four of his top advisers, including his chief of staff, resigned from his government.

And in the West African nation of Guinea-Bissau, soldiers staged an uprising but failed in what would have been the fourth armed coup in the region in less than a year.

Delve into these and more of Bloomberg’s biggest stories from the past seven days in this edition of Weekend Reads.

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