Any other questions?
What kind of vodka {and how much} did you use in your Bloody Marys this morning?
Even tongue in cheek, your first sentence is too whacked out to post.
What BobL said, makes sense to me.
We are burning through inventory in the country, now. There’s still crap on the shelves because it was already here. There would be mass panic if people new that no more was coming. Instead, there is relative calm, while we set ourselves up for a crisis of scarcity. China could just call all of the ships back, at that point, whatever was in them, and watch America burn.
It does sound possible, to me. The ships may or may not have Chinese make-work junk in them, but I could see how China would like the scenario.
I use Ketel One for my Bloody Marys.