Thinktanks with overseas funding and support have been closed down one by one since 2003. In contrast, "中国现代国际关系研究院" (www.cicir.ac.cn), a thinktank with party's blessing and possibly strong funding support, have grown rapidly.
CICIR claimed their target is becoming RAND of China. Recently, I bought several reference book published by CICIR. I found it pretty useful.
CICIR published a series of books on "ThinkTank" (photo) -- US, Europe and Russia.
Each of this introduce the role of thinktanks in respective political system. The book provide a "folder" style introduction to each of the major thinktank. CICIR comment and provide information on (a) the background (funding & history) of each thinktanks, (b) who is the key china experts and their attitude toward China.
The books are good source of background information for searching information from thinktank universe.
Looking forward to their "Japan Thinktank" which will be published in 2006.
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