To me the biggest disgust isn't about this obvious gaffe (everyone knows she meant Taiwan), but its reflection on how little these politicians even care about the subject matter they are espousing.
Don't know and don't care is the attitude, cerebral total shut down relying solely on laryngeal muscle reflexes to spout standard rhetoric. Can you picture Tim Cook in front of a camera broadcasted internationally telling the interviewer in all seriousness that Huawei and Samsung are the best phones that he has ever come across?