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Vance Calls Ocasio-Cortez’s Response to Taiwan Question in Munich ’Embarrassing’

Vice President J.D. Vance labeled Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s Taiwan defense response as embarrassing, highlighting her confusion over trade partnerships and raising doubts about her foreign policy expertise.

  • Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez faced criticism for her hesitant and unclear responses to foreign policy questions at the Munich Security Conference, including about U.S. defense of Taiwan and other issues.
  • Vice President J.D. Vance described Ocasio-Cortez's performance as embarrassing and accused her of repeating slogans without deeper, thoughtful ideas on global politics.
  • Ocasio-Cortez made factual errors such as incorrectly stating that Venezuela is below the equator, which attracted further media scrutiny.
  • Ocasio-Cortez argued that the media focused unfairly on her verbal missteps and distracted from her warnings about threats to democracy and rising populism globally.
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The Daily Wire broke the news in Nashville, United States on Tuesday, February 17, 2026.
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