Think Tank Quickies (#500)
- CFR launches new China program. It will pore through Chinese-language material for better-informed policy.
- Joshua Wright, a law professor who seduced his students and was considered Big Tech's proudest ally, had a $250,000 contract with the American Enterprise Institute (AEI).
- Oren Cass will become chief economist at American Compass and is launching a new Substack, Understanding America. Abigail Ball is taking over as executive director of the think tank, which is also relaunching its publication The Commons.
- Former Austrian Foreign Minister Karin Kneissel, who danced with Vladimir Putin at her 2018 wedding, moved to Russia in 2023 where she runs a think tank. The Russian air force helped mover her household, including her ponies.
- Heritage Foundation gave American Accountability Foundation a $100,000 grant to post 100 names of government workers to a website to show a potential Trump administration who might be standing in the way of a second-term Trump.
- New CSIS report: China's military could isolate Taiwan,
cripple its economy, and make the democratic island succumb to the will
of Beijing’s ruling Communist Party without ever firing a shot.
- Jennifer Harris, the "Queen Bee of Bidenomics," now works at the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation where she helps fund people who are proposing new solutions to economic problems, including the think tank American Compass.
- Paul Manafort used think tanks to shape the image of Angolan rebel leader Jonas Savimbi, according to new book on lobbying The Wolves of K Street.
- The Pacific Institute: "A global water think tank."
- AEI has been a client of Echelon Insights.