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Friday, May 26, 2023

Republican Think Tanks Gearing Up for 2024

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Here is more from FP: The [Mike] Pence-backed nonprofit Advancing American Freedom released a legislative agenda that calls for canceling ...
Thursday, May 25, 2023

How China has Infiltrated US Think Tanks

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Here are some think tank-related excerpts from the book Spies and Lies by Alex Joske , the youngest-ever analyst at the Australian Strategi...
Wednesday, May 24, 2023

Think Tank Quickies (#475)

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Brookings and staff union reach initial one-year agreement. GOP think tank wonks trying to get their party not to detonate the debt limit ...
Tuesday, May 23, 2023

Leaked Docs Show Lockheed Martin CEO About to Join CFR Board

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Here is more from the Eli Clifton, a senior advisor at the Quincy Institute and Investigative-Journalist-at-Large at Responsible Statecraft...
Monday, May 22, 2023

Susan Rice Will Not be Next President of Brookings Institution

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Here is more from Politico: Susan Rice has made it clear she’s not interested in becoming the Brookings Institution ‘s next president, thr...
Friday, May 19, 2023

Atlantic Council Says Its Scholar Possibily Poisoned by Russian Intelligence

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This week the Atlantic Council said that John Herbst , Senior Director of the think tank's Eurasia Center, may have been poisoned by Ru...
Tuesday, May 16, 2023

White House Stops Requesting Think Tank Dislosures of Foreign Funding

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Here is more from The New Republic (TNR): At some point over the past few years, the Biden administration revoked one of the few progressi...
Monday, May 15, 2023

AI Botches Think Tank Analysis

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Here is more from the Washington Post, which asked Microsoft's Bing AI dozens of questions to evaluate the chatbot's answers and so...
Tuesday, May 9, 2023

Think Tank Quickies (#474)

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The McCain Institute announced Politico and CBS as its media partners for its 2023 Sedona Forum. Open Secrets: "One of the main issues...
Monday, May 8, 2023

Beijing Curtails Overseas Access to Chinese Data After Reading US Think Tank Reports

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Here is more from the Wall Street Journal:  A recent campaign to restrict overseas access to China-based data sources was partly triggere...
Friday, May 5, 2023

Bastian Giegerich Named as Next Director-General of IISS

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Here is more from the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS): The Board of Trustees of The International Institute for Strate...
Thursday, May 4, 2023

UK Getting New China-Focused Think Tank

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Here is more from Politico: The China Strategic Risks Institute (CSRI), set to launch on May 10 at an event in the U.K. House of Lords, a...
Wednesday, May 3, 2023

ChatGPT Explains What a Think Tank Is To a 3-Year-Old

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Think Tank Watch asked ChatGPT to explain what a think tank is to a three-year-old.  Here is what it came up with: Okay, imagine you have a ...
Tuesday, May 2, 2023

Think Tank Quickies (#473)

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Bipartisan Policy Center hosted a ceremony to present its Patriot Award to former President George W. Bush at National Harbor, Maryland.  E...
Monday, May 1, 2023

Russia Blocks Western Think Tanks

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Here is more from Canada's Global News: The March edition of the Macdonald-Laurier Institute magazine, Inside Policy, called Russia’s i...
Friday, April 28, 2023

Heritage Foundation Making Plans to Staff a Republican Administration in 2025

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The Heritage Foundation continues to make plans to staff a potential Republican administration in 2025.  Here is more from the New York Tim...
Thursday, April 27, 2023

Japan Financed Lt. Gen. McMaster's Salary at Hudson to the Tune of $250k/Year

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Additional details have come out about Lt. Gen H.R. McMaster's pay at the Hudson Institute , where he is the Japan Chair.  Here is mor...
Wednesday, April 26, 2023

Heritage Foundation Retreats from Free-Market Capitalism?

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Here is more from Business Insider: Conservatism used to be synonymous with free markets. Maybe not for much longer. The Heritage Foundatio...
Tuesday, April 25, 2023

Tucker Carlson Gets Job Offer from Heritage Foundation

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Mr. Tucker Carlson , who was just fired from Fox News, has already been offered a job from the Heritage Foundation . Here is more from the ...
Monday, April 24, 2023

Think Tank Quickies (#472)

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Think tank: World risks descending into climate doom loop. How Kevin Roberts flipped the script at the Heritage Foundation. Sasakawa Peace...
Saturday, April 22, 2023

US House Asks CNAS to Organize Taiwan Wargame

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Here is more from Politico: It’s 2027. Taiwan’s leadership is considering declaring itself an independent country. Chinese paramount leader...
Thursday, April 13, 2023

Are Chinese Scholars Being Cut Off From US Think Tanks

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Think Tank Watch has learned that a number of US think tanks are increasingly cautious about hiring Chinese citizens amid growing US-China c...
Wednesday, April 12, 2023

Billionaire with Deep Ties to Conservative Think Tanks Feted Supreme Court Justice

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Here is more from ProPublica: For more than two decades, [Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas ] has accepted luxury trips virtually ever...
Tuesday, April 11, 2023

Think Tank Quickies (#471)

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Recent hearing offers case study in how Emirati and Bahraini funding has become omnipresent at major foreign policy think tanks, and reveal...
Friday, April 7, 2023

China Sanctions Hudson Institute and Its Leadership

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Here is more from The Independent: China has imposed a fresh tranche of sanctions against the US in retaliation against House speaker Kevin...
Thursday, April 6, 2023

IRS Working with New America on Free Tax-Filing System

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Here is more from Fedscoop: The Internal Revenue Service is working with technology public policy nonprofit New America to study the feas...
Wednesday, April 5, 2023

Taiwanese President Receives Hudson Institue Award

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Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen was presented with the Hudson Institute's Global Leadership Award at an event in New York City. The ...
Tuesday, April 4, 2023

Trump Using Think Tank Plans to Draw Up "Attack" on Mexico?

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Here is more from Rolling Stone: Donald Trump is asking for a plan to wage war in Mexico, and the Republican Party is eager to give it to ...
Monday, April 3, 2023

Think Tank Quickies (#470)

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Lack of disclosure on de facto lobbying at think tanks has triggered a bipartisan reaction, says Luke Goldstein in the American Prospect. U...
Friday, March 31, 2023

ChaptGPT Creates New Think Tanks

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Not that the world needs another think tank, but this week Think Tank Watch asked ChatGPT to create several different think tanks, including...
Thursday, March 30, 2023

Russian Spy Sought Employment at US Think Tanks

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Here is more from the Washington Post: As graduation approached in 2020, [GRU operative Sergey] Cherkasov flooded the field with applicati...
Wednesday, March 29, 2023

Think Tank Acted as Conduit for Anonymous Donations to Group Led by Supreme Court Justice's Wife

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Here is more from the Washington Post: A little-known conservative activist group led by Virginia “Ginni” Thomas , the wife of Supreme Co...
Thursday, March 23, 2023

Think Tank Quickies (#469)

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New ASPI report: China trumps US in key technology research.  CSIS's translation project opens window on China's ambitions, fears. ...
Wednesday, March 22, 2023

What Think Tank Does Ron DeSantis Love?

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Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis , a possible Republican presidential contender, has strong ties to the Claremont Institute , which has been descr...
Tuesday, March 21, 2023

The Think Tank Behind the Judicial Overhaul Now Dividing Israel

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Here is more from the New York Times: For years, Kohelet Policy Forum quietly churned out position papers, trying to nudge government pol...
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