If you wanted to run a world-class lab, but weren't ever going to be given world-class money by Congress....you'd naturally go to plan 'B'.
Plan 'B'? You'd take what marginal funds that Congress would give you and turn to some Chinese guy named 'Wang', and let him do it the Chinese way.....running a marginal pretend-to-be world-class lab, on a quarter of the real budget that you'd need.
If 'Wang' screwed up one day.....at least he did it, and not your own guys.
Just something to think about.