If you really want to be impressed with her intellect, find a live version of this. So powerful. Here's one link. The quote above is at the end...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6z1rbnjGrq4
AOC flew to Germany to demonstrate her grasp of the issues. She was asked if the United States would come to Taiwan's aid if they were invaded by China, and here is her powerful and presidential material answer:; “Um...you know...I think that uh...this is...such a, ya know, I think that...this is a um...This is, of course, a, uh, a very longstanding, um, policy of the United States, uh, and, I think, what we are hoping for is that we want to make sure that we never get to that point, and we want to make sure that we are moving in all our economic research and our global positions to avoid any such confrontation and for that question to even arise.”