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Good morning.

From the newsroom of the Financial Times, today is Monday, November 19th, and this is your F.T. News briefing.

Today we'll be looking at what Tim Cook thinks about regulating big tech.

Tensions between the US and China heating up, and

Prime Minister Theresa May's uncertain path forward on a Brexit deal.

Then the F.T.'s Michael Peel is here to tell us about how some countries might be using Interpol for political purposes,

and what's being done to prevent that.

I'm Eric Krucky, and here's the news you need to start your day.

In an interview that aired on Sunday night, Apple CEO Tim Cook said that new regulations

for the tech industry are inevitable.

Mr. Cook told Axios, quote,

the free market is not working,

and that politicians will step in.

U.S. politicians have been trying to figure out

how to regulate tech companies for two years.

They want some regulation on issues like privacy, political advertising, and competition.

The debate on how to regulate these big tech companies intensified last week.

That's when a New York Times investigation accused Facebook of mishandling its probe into Russian

disinformation on the platform.

And world leaders met to discuss free trade this weekend in the Asia Pacific region at the annual

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