USS Mustin conducts Taiwan Strait Transit

The Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer USS Mustin (DDG 89) conducted a routine Taiwan Strait transit Dec. 19 (local time) in accordance with international law. The ship’s transit through the Taiwan Strait demonstrates the U.S. commitment to a free and open Indo-Pacific. The United States military will continue to fly, sail and operate anywhere international law allows.    But China accused the US of provocation. Such missions “deliberately raise the temperature of the Taiwan issue, as they fear calm in the Taiwan Strait, and send flirtatious glances to Taiwan independence forces, seriously jeopardizing peace and stability in the strait,” the…