Think Tank Quickies (#435)
- Biden taps Lisa Cook, a former research assistant at Brookings for Alice Rivlin, for the Fed.
- China's olive branch to sanctioned German think tank "poorly timed."
- CSIS's Victor Cha now serving on the Defense Policy Board for the Biden Administration.
- New CAP report doesn't disclose authors' foreign ties.
- Pic: A Taiwanese think tank posts its take on a popular meme to show what a headache it is living next to China.
- WaPo's Jeff Stein on the pain of getting scooped by a think tank.
- Brookings scholar: "You know you've arrived when your book has become a doorstop at the Brookings bookstore."
- Pic: Think tanks in China seem way more interesting.
- Jakub Janda: Why I brought a Czech think tank to Taiwan.
- Hunter Marsten: "What's the German word for the feeling you get when a think tank puts out a report that copies a bunch of your recommendations from a different think tank report you wrote on the same subject two years previously but doesn't cite your report."