China Cancels Christmas for Americans by Gordon G. Chang  •  August 27, 2021 at 5:00 am       No, Madam Vice President, climate change has almost nothing to do with the ongoing [supply chain] disruptions. There are many factors, such as the long-term shift of manufacturing to East Asia. Moreover, there are short-term problems, the transport of empty containers being one of them. Expect retail prices in America to go up. If you're the shipping manager for Apple, you don't really care because the additional costs for shipping, say, an iPhone are negligible. The added costs are not negligible, however, if you make larger items. "A 40-foot container can hold 20 sofas," Jonathan Bass, CEO of home décor firm WhomHome, tells Gatestone. "The dramatic increase in rates — it can now cost $25,000 to ship a container across the Pacific to the East Coast — adds about $1,625 per sofa." That increased cost puts this furniture item out-of-reach for most consumers. Bass, a near-shoring advocate, has a fix: "Now, given shipping costs and other factors that are not temporary, it would be cheaper to makes sofas and other items in North America." Moving production would not only employ North Americans and bring prosperity back home, it would also mean that Americans would stop funding a hostile Chinese regime that, among other things, just labeled the U.S. an "enemy." Let us remember: Every single sofa that Americans buy from China gives its malicious regime the funds to grow biological weapons, dig missile silos, and develop even more means to kill Americans. So every sofa we build on this side of the Pacific helps defend the American republic. Christmas in America has been called off this year. Supply-chain disruptions in Asia mean no toys for the tots in December. As a result of a multitude of factors, freight rates have skyrocketed. The cost of hauling containers across the Pacific Ocean, for example, has increased more than 500% during the last year. Pictured: The Lianyungang Port Container Terminal in Jiangsu province, China, on March 24, 2021. (Photo by Hector Retamal/AFP via Getty Images) Quick, someone call Santa. Christmas in America has been called off this year. Supply-chain disruptions in Asia mean no toys for the tots in December. At least that's what Vice President Kamala Harris suggested on her trip to Southeast Asia, and she is right. Shelves across America were bare earlier this year, and they will, in all probability, be bare again due to extraordinary supply-chain disruptions in China and throughout East Asia. There is one solution that eliminates these disruptions and saves the planet. Harris did not mention it, and global elites just hate it. "The stories that we are now hearing about the caution that if you want to have Christmas toys for your children, it might now be the time to start buying them, because the delay may be many, many months," said Harris to a roundtable of business leaders in Singapore on August 23. "So across the board, people are experiencing the issue." Continue Reading Article