Toomas Hanso

Junior Research Fellow

Areas of expertise: China; Chinese infrastructure, technology, and security; Taiwan and cross-strait relations; China-Russia relations

Languages: English, Estonian, Chinese, Spanish, French, German, Swahili; basic skills: Russian, Portuguese

Toomas Hanso joined ICDS as a junior research fellow in October 2024. His research focuses on China, its domestic and foreign policy as well as international relations.

He holds a first-class undergraduate degree from the University of Edinburgh in Chinese & Linguistics. Toomas spent one year studying at National Donghwa University in Hualien, Taiwan as a recipient of the Taiwan-Europe Connectivity Scholarship from 2021-2022, and one year studying in Kunming, China as a recipient of the Confucius Institute Scholarship at Yunnan University from 2023-2024, where he passed the HSK6 Chinese exam.

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