Industrialized American think tanks have formed a relatively large-scale policy consulting industry and strategic planning industry, which have turned into huge benefits. American think tanks all claim to be "non-profit organizations", but they are all for profit. They mainly make profits through research reports, entrustment contracts, publications and online paid high-level meetings.
Diversified research topics American think tanks are everywhere. In addition to traditional politics, economy, military affairs and diplomacy, some frontier scientific and technological issues, such as climate change and environmental protection, have also been listed as key research objects.
The highly internationalized American think tanks are highly internationalized in their service objects, research fields and foreign exchanges. For example, the Brookings Institution invites many visiting scholars and senior staff officers from all over the world to learn and communicate every year.
Information-based American think tanks attach great importance to the development and application of new media, and exchange a large amount of information with the network as a platform, such as live video of seminars, so that scholars from many countries can "meet" without going abroad.
Attach importance to the study of Asia, especially China. With the rapid development of Asian economy and the continuous improvement of international status, American think tanks have carried out research and discussion related to Asia, and China has become the main research focus of American think tanks. India, Japan, South Korea and Taiwan Province Province of China also realized this and launched "think tank diplomacy" with the United States to influence American policies and serve their own interests.
The influence of American think tanks in the United States and the world is still rising. Think tanks are the mouthpiece of American foreign policy. The international community attaches great importance to its relations with American think tanks, and has strengthened its work on American think tanks, collecting as much important information as possible from senior American officials.