Think Tank Quickies (#327)

• House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI) to AEI or Heritage?
• Koch-funded think tank Mercatus Center pretending it's not part of George Mason U.
• David Brooks: Expertise is not at think tanks but among those who have local knowledge.
• Think tankers to attend Summer Davos Forum in China.
• Centre for Human Security Studies (CHSS) opens in India.
• Kiwi professor (Anne-Marie Brady) whose work exposed China's influence in New Zealand and whose home was burglarized, had presented her paper at US think tank.
• Clemson University's International Center for Automotive Research: "An industry technology center and think tank that BMW helped create in 2006."
• Outspoken Putin critic Bill Browder spoke over Skype to the Atlantic Council.
• IKEA's think tank envisions self-driving cars as rooms on wheels.
• Huawei was the biggest corporate sponsor of overseas travel for the country's politicians from 2010 to this year, according to an independent analysis by the Australian Strategic Policy Institute, a think tank based in Canberra.