These tankers are all China-bound. And the US has no interest at all in using their Navy to secure the shipping lanes anymore for the likes of China. Beijing better put that allegedly awesome blue-water fleet they've been crowing about for the last 20 years into action if they want their interests protected from hostile nations and piracy because the scum of the world won't be able to rely on the United States to do it for them anymore.

As per an actual accredited geopolitical expert, it's a brand new world out there due to what China caused with COVID and the old rules of the old game are fading away very, very quickly....