Wednesday, April 15, 2026

Think Tank Quickies (#329)

  • CGD: The triple threat facing think tanks.
  • Meet the new foreign affairs magazine: New Voyager. 
  • New think tank launched to bridge talent gap in Hong Kong studies.
  • Republicans accuse climate groups (Energy Foundation China and the Center for Climate Integrity) of doing China's "dirty work" in the US.
  • Where is Trump's aggressive new stance toward the NATO alliance coming from?  One answer: a 2023 white paper authored by the British academic and conservative historian Sumantra Maitra.  In a paper published by the Trump-aligned think tank Center for Renewing America, Maitra sketched out a theory of what he called "Dormant NATO" - a radically re-imagined alliance in which America plays a much more minor role relative to its European allies. 
  • Think tankers are members of the super-secretive Bohemian Grove society according to leaked documents.
  • Sarah Ladislaw, a former senior director for climate and energy at the NSC under the Biden Administration, now runs the New Energy Industrial Strategy (NEIS) Center think tank. 
  • Calls for Congress to bolster its in-house think tank's access to AI. 
  • CSIS launched a project on avoiding strategic miscalculation in US-China relations. 
  • Nikkei reporter Ken Moriyasu leaving newspaper to join the Hudson Institute as a Senior Fellow for Greater Asia.