Guardian Weekly

The Guardian Weekly magazine is a round-up of the world news, opinion and long reads that have shaped the week. Inside, the past seven days' most memorable stories are reframed with striking photography and insightful companion pieces, all handpicked from The Guardian and The Observer.

Eyewitness France

Global report • Headlines from the last seven days

Global report • United Kingdom

Reader’s eyewitness

SCIENCE AND ENVIRONMENT

How China prepped for chaos • When Donald Trump threatened a disruptive trade war against the world, it would have been tempting for Xi Jinping to do nothing. Instead, Beijing ensured it was ready for the turmoil. Rather than sustaining an economic hit, will it cash in?

Balancing act • Vietnam walks tightrope as Xi courts allies in regional tour

‘Fight to the end’ • A US trade war is an ideological and political gift for Xi

Keeping the blast furnaces burning • The fight to save Britain’s steel industry

Two queens • Scunthorpe needs Bess and Anne to stay fired up

A search for safety as six orphans trek across wartorn country • After their mother died, the siblings were forced to sleep rough and endure horrors on the road to El Geneina

In the running • Bobi Wine has Museveni in sights again

Eyewitness India

Heavy toll • Brazen attacks on civilians may force US to get tough with Putin

Night after night, the injured pour in as war grinds on • As peace talks falter, frontline medics working relentlessly on badly wounded soldiers are resigned to a conflict with no end in sight

Outsider art Revival of a clean water fix from 40 years ago • John Todd came up with a natural way to remove waste from lagoons in the 1980s – now he has oceans in his sights

Mothers’ sorrow Young men risk all to reach Europe • For many, the perilous journey to Spain seems the only future. Can the new government create enough jobs and prospects to make them stay?

Delight as south Asian art revels in ‘major moment’

Holocaust comedy goes down well, but not painlessly

Skeleton crews How to steer clear of broken bones • The older you are, the likelier it is that a fall, a knock or gravity will break bones weakened by osteoporosis. But there are ways to protect yourself – and the earlier you start, the better

Denial politics • Accounts of Biden’s fall are tough reading for Democrats

Cross-border library stuck between the lines of Trump’s feud

Is legal action the only way to save the planet? • Monica Feria-Tinta is one of a growing number of lawyers reinterpreting human rights law to make governments take action on the climate crisis

Cheesed off • Who would steal 22 tonnes of posh cheese or $47,000 of smoked salmon? A rise in fraudulent orders for luxury foodstuffs has rattled the UK industry, leaving artisan producers with unpaid bills and a truckload of questions

Chris Michael • Does Donald Trump realise his contribution to Canadian pride?

Laura Hall • Scandi eco-dream that turned noir reminds us that nowhere is perfect

George Monbiot • Demagogues thrive on fiscal inequality and a weakness in our psyche

The GuardianView • William Morris prints are everywhere. He would be thrilled and appalled

Opinion Letters

The fabric of home • South Korean artist Do Ho Suh’s diaphanous houses, now on show in London, embody the emotional imprint of where we have lived

We Iranians are here for faux Farsi Ed Sheeran • The singer’s new single has been mocked, but to us it’s a celebration of our often misunderstood culture

Long in the teeth • Gary Archer is Hollywood’s go-to guy for amazing gnashers – he created a ‘manky British’ set for Austin...