Think Tank Quickies (#461)

• RAND is leading a new multi-year Global Strategic Partnership with the UK's Ministry of Defense.
• Jobs in think tanks are attractive cover for spies in Belgium.
  
• Think tankers on whether to defend Taiwan. 
• Japanese Defense Ministry think tank says China intensifying disinformation, cyberattacks on Taiwan.
  
• Marjorie Taylor Greene on the Cato Institute.
• A potential model for US universities and think tanks in their interactions with China.
• Groundwork Collaborative: "Part strategic communications, part think tank, and part issue advocacy organization."
  
• Video: Paul Ryan on why legislators should work with think tanks to solve big problems.
  
• Pic: Think tankers participate in the baking challenge.
• Flashback: "When President-elect Donald Trump picked China critic Robert Lighthizer...as his chief trade negotiator, the Chinese Commerce Ministry called a senior economist at a government think tank and assigned him a task: To lead a study on the impact of a trade war."