Think Tank Quickies (#228)
- The corporations behind big EU think tanks (includes charts/maps).
- Clinton's monopolizing foreign policy brain trust
(including think tankers) which is so large that campaign cannot offer
definitive estimate of its size. Advisors include Michele Flournoy, CEO
of CNAS; Brian Katulis (CAP); and Dan Kurtz-Phelan (New America).
- Bernie Sanders simply has one-off meetings
with think tankers, including Ray Takeyh (CFR), Tamara Cofman Witttes
(Brookings; she is an advisor to Clinton), and Lawrence Korb (CAP).
- James Wallner, executive director of the Senate Steering Committee, is leaving to become the Heritage Foundation's VP for research.
- Libertarian Cato Institute urging approval of TPP trade pact.
- Maya Harris, formerly a senior fellow at Center for American Progress (CAP), a senior policy advisor to Clinton campaign.
- Video: Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) rips think tanks for fake climate change research.
- Any Pokemon Go stops at major Washington think tanks?
- Chinese think tanks: Confidential messengers and idea sources as well as spear carriers for the government, via Jerome Cohen.
- US and Chinese think tanks agree the South China Sea situation needs to be cooled down.
