May I say... --- think-tanks have long been a target in projecting one's country. They don't need embassy payments for their reports and studies....But they want connections with their counterparts in your country....Did someone say, such counterparts often don't exist? Help build own TTs -- and don't make them caged parrots. Fund them and step back, not try and run them. They may criticize own country govt? Live with that, as plurality of opinion, diversity.

Source author: Kishan S Rana kishanrana@gmail.com