“Something didn’t look right to me because in nature very rarely do you see straight lines,” said Wang, chief operating officer of ingeniSPACE, which analyses satellite imagery and ship signals data.
“We’ve seen like two, 300, up to a thousand (Chinese fishing boats congregate), but anything exceeding a thousand I thought was unusual.”
Maritime and military experts told AFP the massing of Chinese fishing boats on December 25, about 300 kilometres northeast of Taiwan, was on a scale they had never seen before.
Iran hasn’t closed the strait to its own tankers.
So? The US is attacking Iranian ships.
Iran is now exporting more oil through the Strait of Hormuz than before the war.
https://www.news18.com/world/is-iran-exporting-more-oil-now-because-it-controls-strait-of-hormuz-what-data-shows-ws-l-9955693.html
Keep in mind there’s a huge fog of was element to this, but there are reports that the US Navy is allowing China-bound tankers to pass simply because stopping them would basically be an act of war against China.