Thoughts from Jeff Childers - There are a WHOLE LOT of ships anchored offshore, waiting to dock in China, due to that country’s lunatic Zero-Covid policy. The supply chain problems are probably going to get a whole lot worse before they get better.
My thought is that this will ultimately be another self-inflicted injury, spurring a new renaissance in U.S. manufacturing industries. It will take time to spin up, but I’ll bet you a lot of U.S.-based entrepreneurial types are already putting domestic manufacturing plans together. Local regulations encouraging manufacturing and transportation would be very helpful right about now. For example, red counties should be passing ordinances expediting permits for new manufacturing operations.
If you want to do something to help locally, lobby your county commission to pass new rules encouraging manufacturing and transportation industries.
The US needs to up its manufacturing. They need to do so before China takes Taiwan in the next few years under Xi as he cements his legacy.