Monday, July 28, 2025

Think Tank Quickies (#521)

  • RAND Corp.: China's Evolving Industrial Policy for AI. 
  • European Marine Board: "An ocean-policy think tank."
  • Flashback: French think tank chief Laurent Bigorgne, who was head of Institut Montaigne and a close associate of the French president, was convicted for attempted spike rape.
  • China's think tank diplomacy in Africa.
  • The Heritage Foundation launched a new Defense Budget Builder, which allows people to search through defense budget line items more easily. 
  • US think tank report (from Defense Priorities) calls for removal of all 500 US military trainers in Taiwan. 
  • The Institute for New Economic Thinking (INET) was founded in Oct. 2009 "as a result of the Great Recession, and runs a variety of affiliated programs at major universities such as the Cambridge-INET Institute at the University of Cambridge." 
  • Movement Advancement Project: "A think tank that studies state policies affecting the LGBTQ+ population." 
  • Shift Project: "A French environmental think tank."