China’s Unrelenting Lockdowns Likely to Worsen US Inflation: Analysts

Workers wearing personal protective equipment (PPE) are seen at an entrance to an alley in a neighbourhood under lockdown in Beijing on May 24, 2022. Jade Gao/AFP via Getty Images

The U.S. economy is likely to face fresh inflationary pressures from China, where on-and-off COVID-19 lockdowns have slowed production in a wide range of areas from chips to Christmas trees, ravaging global supply chains.

The Chinese regime’s heavy-handed measures to contain the fast-moving Omicron variant have brought major industrial and commercial centers, such as Shanghai, to a halt.