Think Tank Quickies (#150)

• Will Brookings expand in India?  Is Chennai branch next...?
• Growing stink about think tanks, by Alan Tonelson. 
• Stanford Law School guide to think tank world. 
• Think tanks face hurdle in answering Xi Jinping's call for "new type of Chinese think tank."
• Think tanks too optimistic about "zero casualty war."
• Former Prime Minister of Australia Kevin Rudd to become first president of Asia Society Policy Institute, described as a "new kind of think tank on the rise of Asia."
• From AICGS at Johns Hopkins: How think tanks think.
• Do think tanks send too many emails? (Think Tank Watch's answer: yes)
• Is Russia "buying" Western think tanks and experts?
• PBS Newshour's former foreign affairs and defense editor now watches wonks push policy in Washington's multitude of think tanks.