Think Tank Quickies (#492)

• Center for Renewing America preparing to infuse "Christian nationalism" in 2nd Trump term. 
• New RAND report warning: Most significant threat to US financial system is not an abrupt event akin to a "financial 9/11," but rather a slow and steady process, akin to "financial climate change."
  
• Rep. Lance Gooden (R-TX) introduced the Think Tank and Nonprofit Foreign Influence Disclosure Act (H.R. 7169). 
• Stimson Center's Matthew Burrows: "Nasty, Brutish, and Short: Scholars, Think Tanks, and Influence on Policymaking."
  
• CNAS event: Deep Dive into Think Tanks. 
• Niskanen Center warns of the Heritage Foundation's Project 2025.
• CCP is urging the Global Times to complain about a Hudson Institute video.
• Wargaming in Japan's policy think tanks.
  
• "As for the Chinese public, Zhu Junwei - director of American research at Grandview Institution, a Beijing think tank, and a former researcher in the People's Liberation Army - carried out an informal online survey to find out how they view the upcoming vote. About 60% preferred Trump."
  
• Flashback: Jake Sullivan married Margaret Goodlander, who was a Next Generation National Security Fellow at CNAS from 2011-2012.