Think Tank Quickies (#517)
- In Feb. 2025, former Chinese ambassador to the US Cui Tiankai quietly led the first of multiple delegations to Washington, meeting with think tank representatives and exploring how Beijing might engage the Trump Administration.
- World Economic Forum (WEF) founder Klaus Schwab is under investigation by the organization he created after a new whistleblower letter alleged financial and ethical misconduct by the longtime leader and his wife.
- Dr. Alexandra de Hoop Scheffer has been appointed as the new president of the German Marshall Fund (GMF). She will be the think tank's first European president.
- Project 2049 has rebranded as the Institute for Indo-Pacific Security.
- The roots of Vladimir Putin aligning himself with a small cadre of conservatives inside the US who shared his disdain for modern liberalism can be traced back to 1995 - before Putin was even president - when two Russian sociologists, Anatoly Antonov and Viktor Medkov, summoned Allan C. Carlson, an academic and the president of a conservative think tank in Illinois, to Moscow.
- Michael O'Hanlon of the Brookings Institution among the think tankers kicked off the Defense Policy Board.
- Navy leadership concerned that criticism of Trump by invited speakers could cause another outcry from conservative think tanks.
- American Compass' "membership group" - an off-the-record confab that has seminars, salon dinners and an annual retreat to the Eastern Shore of Maryland - crossed 200 members in 2024.
- Saikat Chakrabarti is the president and co-founder of New Consensus, a think tank "that has been trying to think through what it would take to build at Green New Deal scale and pace."
- From The Atlantic: The Project 2025 Presidency.
