[HIGHLIGHTS] Experts on Taiwan: Remarkable and ill-timed by Macron

Emmanuel Macron does not want Europe to be entangled in a conflict over Taiwan. The statement on the conflict between China, Taiwan and the United States is poorly timed given the war in Ukraine, according to Swedish experts.

"This is not the time to highlight that difference," says Göran von Sydow, director of the Swedish Institute for European Policy Studies, SIEPS. The EU's official line has long been not to recognise Taiwan as independent, but that may not be relevant in the next few years.