Vice President JD Vance suggested that Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) “go read a book” after stumbling through an answer over the weekend regarding U.S. support for Taiwan in the event of an invasion from mainland China.
Vance said during a Fox News interview on Tuesday that Ocasio-Cortez’s performance at the Munich Security Conference was “embarrassing” and “the most uncomfortable 20 seconds of television” he’d ever seen.
“Look, that was embarrassing. If I had given that answer, I would say, ‘You know what, maybe I go read a book about China and Taiwan before I go out on the world stage again,’” he told host Martha MacCallum. “I hope that congresswoman Cortez has the same humility, but I’m skeptical.”
Ocasio-Cortez, along with a larger group of American lawmakers, was asked during a panel at the Munich confab about America’s commitment to defending Taiwan in the event of an invasion by communist China.
“This is, of course, a very long-standing policy of the United States, and I think what we are hoping for is that we want to make sure that we never get to that point,” she stated, following a lengthy pause. “We want to make sure that we are moving in all of our economic research and our global positions to avoid any such confrontation and for that question to even arise.”
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The vice president claimed the clip, which Fox News aired without showing the congresswoman’s actual response, illustrated “a person who doesn’t know what she actually thinks.”
“I’ve seen this way too much in Washington with politicians, where they are given lines. And when you ask them to go outside the lines they were given, they completely fall apart,” said Vance. “Does anyone really believe that AOC has very thoughtful ideas about the global world order or about what the United States should do with our policy in Asia or our policy in Europe?”
