Caitlin Allen

London

Journalist at Freelance

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Articles

Meloni's big test: can she sweet-talk Trump on trade?

1 week ago | reaction.life | Caitlin Allen
Supreme Court backs biological definition of woman

1 week ago | reaction.life | Caitlin Allen

A years-long and highly polarising legal battle came to a head today, after judges at the UK Supreme Court ruled unanimously that the definition of a woman in the Equality Act should be based on biological sex, excluding transgender women. The ruling reverses 20 years of understanding in Britain of how the law recognises trans men and women with gender recognition certificates.
Sudan conference: diplomats gather in London to mark sombre anniversary

1 week ago | reaction.life | Caitlin Allen

The UK announced a further £120 million in aid for Sudan today, as the world marked a sombre two year anniversary of the country’s devastating civil war that has prompted a humanitarian crisis of staggering proportions.
Why China could win the trade war

1 week ago | reaction.life | Caitlin Allen

China’s Xi Jinping has urged his neighbours to join him in resisting Donald Trump’s “unilateralism and protectionism” as he kicked off his tour of Southeast Asia today, in a bid to get countries on side as the US and China remain locked in a trade war. Xi is in Vietnam, before heading to Malaysia and Cambodia later this week, with the stated aiming of deepening “all-round cooperation”. REACTION is a reader-supported publication.
It may be too late to save British Steel

1 week ago | reaction.life | Caitlin Allen

The UK parliament is being recalled for an emergency debate tomorrow as ministers fight to save Britain’s only surviving steel-making plant from imminent closure. According to Downing Street, ministers are set to debate an emergency law that would give them immediate powers to control British Steel's plant in Scunthorpe to ensure it has enough raw materials to keep going.
What to make of the Chinese troops in Ukraine

2 weeks ago | reaction.life | Caitlin Allen

Kyiv’s intelligence indicates that there are at least 155 Chinese citizens fighting for Russia in Ukraine, said President Volodymyr Zelensky today, two days on from his first official allegation that Beijing is supplying Russia with manpower. On Tuesday, Zelensky announced that Ukrainian troops had fought six Chinese soldiers on the battlefield in the eastern Donetsk region, and taken two of them as prisoners.
Trump U-turns on tariffs for everyone bar China

2 weeks ago | reaction.life | Caitlin Allen

Global markets have rallied this evening, after Donald Trump dramatically U-turned on his tariff policy, albeit with one big exception. Trump has doubled down on his trade war with China, hiking levies on the world’s second largest economy to a staggering 125%, but for the dozens of countries previously set to be hit with high import charges who haven’t retaliated, “I have authorised a 90 day PAUSE,” he confirmed. REACTION is a reader-supported publication.
Next… Trump tries to do his own Iran nuclear deal

2 weeks ago | reaction.life | Caitlin Allen

Donald Trump has surprised the world by announcing that the US will hold “direct talks” with Iran this Saturday in Oman over a new nuclear deal. He’s been equally keen to stress just how high the stakes are: "If the talks aren't successful with Iran, I think Iran is going to be in great danger," said the US President, who has repeatedly warned that Tehran must sign a new nuclear deal or face military strikes.
Trump ignores Wall Street supporters and escalates China trade war

2 weeks ago | reaction.life | Caitlin Allen

Donald Trump has raised the trade war stakes once again this evening with an extraordinary new threat that could bring the tariff rate on some Chinese goods to 104 per cent. If Beijing does not withdraw its 34% retaliatory tariffs on the US, Trump claimed he would hit it with an additional 50 per cent tariff. It seems the US President is in no mood to heed to the warnings of even his key Wall Street backer.
China ramps up global trade war

2 weeks ago | reaction.life | Caitlin Allen

Trillions of dollars have been wiped from global markets today as the world´s two largest economies find themselves, unequivocally, in a trade war. China has launched a fresh retaliation to Trump´s sweeping tariffs, announcing plans to slap an additional 34 per cent tax on all US imported goods from next Thursday. This comes on top of the tariffs - ranging from 10 to 15 per cent - that it has already imposed on a host of US agricultural products in response to Trump´s earlier set of levies.