You need to come to an understanding of the geopolitical and macroeconomic backdrop of the situation. This metaphor reads a little defeatist to me.
It’s high time western countries stopped hollowing out manufacturing, resource extraction, and energy production and depending on unfriendly nations to perform those functions for us.
We will have to pay more for the privilege of increasing our manufacturing / commodity base. We also need to increase our global shipping fleet and stop depending on the Chinese companies like COSCO and China shipping for those functions.
The inflationary impact of the global response to Covid aside, I believe the above reasons are why inflation will not moderate in the near term. Additionally, the global deflationary force that was China manufacturing from the 80s to now will not likely recur. Their workforce has progressed to the point of requiring higher pay to remain competitive.