Think Tank Quickies (#148)
- Chinese ramp up spying on Australian think tanks. 
 
- Think tanks in South Korea blasted for fund misuse. 
 
- Brookings' Strobe Talbott to be honored by Cleveland Council on World Affairs.
 
- Dan Drezner on thinking about think tanks; and five things I now think I think about think tanks. 
 
- Aspen Institute head: There's no real reason to have think tanks start before 10am.
 
- Texas Gov. Rick Perry gives speech at Royal United Services Institute (RUSI).
 
- Plagiarism from think tanks costs US senator his degree. 
 
- Heidi Shierholz, former economist at EPI, becomes Labor Department's chief economist.
 
- CSIS launches "Global Sustainability Series" with support from Bechtel Corporation; announces new initiative in partnership with Fortune Magazine called "Smart Women, Smart Power."
 
- CNAS announces formation of Defense Strategies and Assessments Program.
 
- Andrew Selee of Wilson Center has piece in Time magazine - "Think Tanks: What Are They Good For?" (cites Jerry Seinfeld on think tanks)