Eeva Eek-Pajuste, the director of the Lennart Meri Conference/ICDS, said in an interview to WTOP (Washington’s Top News) that Europe needs to quickly educate a number of high-level China specialists.
While still keeping a very close eye on Russia, Eek-Pajuste said, “The [Lennart Meri] conference is about emerging dangers. It is about trying to define today what will be the worries of security and foreign policy tomorrow.” This year, to no one’s surprise, at the three-day conference last month, where top thinkers, decision-makers and researchers analyzed political hot spots and made educated guesses, every single discussion included China.
Read the full story at https://wtop.com/j-j-green-national/2019/06/estonia-leveraging-the-past-us-alliance-to-chart-future-course/
Read the liveblog by JJ Green, WTOP national security correspondent on his visit to Estonia at https://wtop.com/j-j-green-national/2019/05/on-assignment-wtop-national-security-correspondent-jj-green-with-us-military-in-estonia/
Overview of the Lennart Meri Conference 2019 is available at https://lmc.icds.ee/