Why We Ask: Our mission and operations are funded 100% by conservatives like you. Please help us continue to extend Liberty to the next generation and support the 2024 Year-End Campaign today.

November 29, 2022

China Locks Down U.S. Supply Chain

Every time Beijing tightens its “zero COVID” policy, they know the American economy suffers.

We all know China is the nation responsible for unleashing the COVID-19 pandemic onto the globe, all while lying about its origins and pretty much everything else. We also know the Chinese Communists continue to enforce one of the most draconian responses to the virus well after much of the rest of the world has effectively recovered and moved on, in part to contain civil unrest.

Protests broke out in several Chinese cities following Beijing’s latest implementation of its tyrannical “zero COVID” policy, which effectively amounts to locking people in their homes until party enforcers decide the threat has passed. The irony is that rather than dealing with the problem and ensuring that these outbreaks of COVID don’t suddenly hit Chinese cities, the zero COVID policy does the opposite — it ensures that healthy young people are prevented from contracting the virus and developing immunity, thereby ensuring that COVID remains a constant deadly threat to China’s older population in a country that continues to lack the hospital capacity to care for mass numbers of sickened individuals.

Of course, this goes a long way to explain China’s bogus COVID mortality number. In a nation with a population of 1.4 billion, the party apparatchiks insist the death toll remains an absurdly low 5,233 — and American media outlets largely play along with that ridiculous fiction. Furthermore, Beijing has repeatedly peddled the myth of its zero COVID policy being superior to that of the Western democracies.

Since zero COVID is and was a flawed policy from the start, what’s stopping Xi Jinping from ending it and adopting a more successful approach that includes accepting the offer of mRNA vaccines? The answer ultimately lies in China’s communist authoritarian government ideology, which, to sum it up, demands that the people exist to serve the state, rather than in a democratic form of government where the state existing to serve the populace.

To reject the zero COVID policy would be to admit defeat to the West, something that Xi is not about to concede. Furthermore, the ChiComs know that the massive zero COVID lockdowns do damage at home, but they also disrupt the global economic supply chain, damaging western economies and specifically the U.S.

“Big American companies in general earn a lot of profits in China,” said Brookings Institution fellow David Dollar. “Definitely, profits are not growing given the stagnation in the economy. There are key products, like certain types of smartphones, that are seeing clear supply chain bottlenecks. These bottlenecks jump around from sector to sector, city to city, and impact production in complex ways.”

So, while a lockdown in one of China’s large cities may not appear to directly impact the U.S., it does negatively impact the prices Americans see at retail stores like Walmart. Furthermore, Xi may see the zero COVID policy as a means of useful leverage against Joe Biden when it comes to Taiwan. Beijing can significantly affect global supplies by locking down major cities and blaming the pandemic. It’s a means of pushing what amounts to temporary economic sanctions while avoiding all the inconvenient international political blowback.

Playing such games is also one reason behind Dr. Anthony Fauci’s continued, albeit admittedly less vociferously pushed, rejection of the lab leak theory being the most likely explanation for the origin of COVID. The Biden administration would rather bow to the ChiComs than stand up to them.

Who We Are

The Patriot Post is a highly acclaimed weekday digest of news analysis, policy and opinion written from the heartland — as opposed to the MSM’s ubiquitous Beltway echo chambers — for grassroots leaders nationwide. More

What We Offer

On the Web

We provide solid conservative perspective on the most important issues, including analysis, opinion columns, headline summaries, memes, cartoons and much more.

Via Email

Choose our full-length Digest or our quick-reading Snapshot for a summary of important news. We also offer Cartoons & Memes on Monday and Alexander’s column on Wednesday.

Our Mission

The Patriot Post is steadfast in our mission to extend the endowment of Liberty to the next generation by advocating for individual rights and responsibilities, supporting the restoration of constitutional limits on government and the judiciary, and promoting free enterprise, national defense and traditional American values. We are a rock-solid conservative touchstone for the expanding ranks of grassroots Americans Patriots from all walks of life. Our mission and operation budgets are not financed by any political or special interest groups, and to protect our editorial integrity, we accept no advertising. We are sustained solely by you. Please support The Patriot Fund today!


The Patriot Post and Patriot Foundation Trust, in keeping with our Military Mission of Service to our uniformed service members and veterans, are proud to support and promote the National Medal of Honor Heritage Center, the Congressional Medal of Honor Society, both the Honoring the Sacrifice and Warrior Freedom Service Dogs aiding wounded veterans, the Tunnel to Towers Foundation, the National Veterans Entrepreneurship Program, the Folds of Honor outreach, and Officer Christian Fellowship, the Air University Foundation, and Naval War College Foundation, and the Naval Aviation Museum Foundation. "Greater love has no one than this, to lay down one's life for his friends." (John 15:13)

★ PUBLIUS ★

“Our cause is noble; it is the cause of mankind!” —George Washington

Please join us in prayer for our nation — that righteous leaders would rise and prevail and we would be united as Americans. Pray also for the protection of our Military Patriots, Veterans, First Responders, and their families. Please lift up your Patriot team and our mission to support and defend our Republic's Founding Principle of Liberty, that the fires of freedom would be ignited in the hearts and minds of our countrymen.

The Patriot Post is protected speech, as enumerated in the First Amendment and enforced by the Second Amendment of the Constitution of the United States of America, in accordance with the endowed and unalienable Rights of All Mankind.

Copyright © 2024 The Patriot Post. All Rights Reserved.

The Patriot Post does not support Internet Explorer. We recommend installing the latest version of Microsoft Edge, Mozilla Firefox, or Google Chrome.