This is what’s happening as I see it:
The US is not sending empty containers back to China because China refuses to send America anymore stuff because the DC Corporation hasn’t been paying their debts to China since Nov 2020.
Instead the containers have been piling up at the docks. Ships are unable to unload because the ports are full.
The DC Corporation was given until October 18, 2021 to pay their debts but failed. They went into bankruptcy but somehow managed to change the official bankruptcy date to December 3, 2021 when all hell wil break loose for them. They will fight to stay in power but crumble fast.
Then we will have to decide how we are going to run our debt jubilee. Without the DC Corporation, we would be free.
DC Corporation is the collective Western Deep State like Rockafeller, Hillary, ect..
If the Chinese aren't sending any more stuff then what ships need unloading?
Anyway, a lot of the stuff is Xmas inventory. If it's not with retailers in time for Xmas then they will have piles and piles of unsellable junk turn up at goods-in come January.
I imagine there are a lot of sweating inventory manages looking at the fine print of the incoterms to find a way to refuse delivery on Dec 26th onwards
It’s all backed up stuff that was shipped recently.