{"id":2914,"date":"2016-04-27T02:21:29","date_gmt":"2016-04-27T07:21:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onthinktanks.org\/articles\/\/"},"modified":"2016-11-08T08:35:26","modified_gmt":"2016-11-08T13:35:26","slug":"think-tanks-in-china-a-golden-age","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onthinktanks.org\/articles\/think-tanks-in-china-a-golden-age\/","title":{"rendered":"Think Tanks in China: A Golden Age?"},"content":{"rendered":"
According to many Chinese scholars at an event co-orgnised by the\u00a0German Institute of Global and Area Studies (GIGA) and the School of Public Policy and Management<\/a> at Tsinghua University in Beijing, think tanks in China are enjoying of a Golden Age.<\/p>\n Since President Xi Jinxing called, in 2013, for a\u00a0new type of think tank catered for China to \u201cpromote scientific and democratic decision making […] And strengthening China\u2019s soft power\u201d, the country has seen an exponential increase in think tanks.<\/p>\n By some accounts, more than 200 think tanks have been founded since 2013 (some suggested that up to 300 new think tanks may have been formed in the last 3 years).<\/p>\n The question in everyone’s mind was: how is this possible? 200 think tanks in 3 years is a large number -even for China.\u00a0Many stars would\u00a0need to line-up for this to happen:<\/p>\n These inputs are crucial but do not explain the sudden boom in think tank formation.<\/p>\n Are these the ingredients for the perfect think tank recipe? Does it matter what the political regime is as long as there is political support for the formation of think tanks? Would Chinese think tanks have developed with out public funding? What would the quality be like had they’d be funded without the right people to staff them? And could we sustain a think tank boom without research about them?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" According to many Chinese scholars at an event co-orgnised by the\u00a0German Institute of Global and Area Studies (GIGA) and the School of Public Policy and Management at Tsinghua University in Beijing, think tanks in China are enjoying of a Golden Age. Since President Xi Jinxing called, in 2013, for a\u00a0new type of think tank catered […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","footnotes":""},"tags":[254,441,900],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/onthinktanks.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2914"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/onthinktanks.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/onthinktanks.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onthinktanks.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onthinktanks.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2914"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/onthinktanks.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2914\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/onthinktanks.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onthinktanks.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}200 think tanks do not materialise out of thin air<\/h2>\n
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Politics, money, people, and ideas<\/h2>\n