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I'm Rob Cox, the editor of Breaking Views, coming to you from Zurich, Switzerland.

Okay, you've all had enough of the U.S. election over the past two weeks.

So I'm delighted to bring you two different stories for this week's edition.

First, we travel to Hong Kong where Robin Mack and Yawin Chen walk us through the decision

by Chinese antitrust authorities to unveil draft rules singling out

internet platforms for potential monopolistic behavior. It's the latest slap to China's big tech

companies led by Alibaba and Tencent, after securities authorities dinged Ant, the financial

services company affiliated with Alibaba and its founder Jack Ma, and derailed its planned IPO a couple of weeks ago.

After that, we fly to New York,

where I speak to Anna Schumansky and Lauren Silva Loughlin about the market rally inspired by

Pfizer's revelation that its COVID-19 vaccine is super effective. Give a listen. Okay, so this week

we had the global backlash against technology giants clearly reached

across the Pacific to China.

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