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It's the result of our response to Covid. Shutting down the entire global supply chain for months was certain to have dramatic effects, I'm just suprised it took this long.

I'm sure interested parties are also making full use of the chaos to futher their own ends.

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Umm, no. did you read the article? The early covid supply chain issues were ages ago, the effects of those were gone by last summer.

The current supply chain issues are mainly due to China’s zero-covid policy and a typhoon closing down ports.

The western world is basically back to pre-covid business wise, with Asia being the bottleneck

>trapped by typhoons and Covid outbreaks that have worsened major congestion in the global supply-chain network.

Yes, I did. There is no way that the delicate machinery of international trade has already recovered - large parts of the world were still in lockdown last summer!

>Umm, no. did you read the article? The early covid supply chain issues were ages ago, the effects of those were gone by last summer.

You mean the article that says a key port in Shenzhen was shut down in May 2021 due to a COVID outbreak? That one?

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