Munich, Germany —Many of the Democrats who came to the Munich Security Conference this weekend want to be president. US Secretary of State Marco Rubio speaks during the 62nd Munich Security Conference in Munich, Germany on Saturday. And I think there’s a lesson to that.”Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez speaks during the Munich Security Conference in Munich, Germany, on Sunday. The issue: Taiwan, a fulcrum of US foreign policy that’s definitional for the relationship between the world’s two largest economies and superpowers. But it also showed she was unprepared to answer what is likely to become one of the central foreign policy challenges that will define the next century in geopolitics.

Source: CNN February 16, 2026 05:05 UTC