The world in brief

In today's edition: UBS buys Credit Suisse, Xi visits Putin in Moscow and Macron's government on the line

An unhappy union

A 167-year-old institution is dead. Global banking is in a new, turbulent age

Peacemaker or provocateur?

Big question loom as Xi Jinping visits Vladimir Putin. But the Chinese leader's true intentions are hidden in plain sight

The elephant and the crane

Fear of China has made India and Japan close. Yet their relationship is struggling to fulfil its potential

<Reference: Economist>