When it comes to concrete measures for scientific cooperation and collaboration between research institutions, universities and research-based companies, the German government’s China strategy has not been very fruitful. Experts say this could be because implementation must not cost anything: „Above all, however, it struggles with the capacity to implement it. Not enough resources are provided for it. As with the national security strategy, this was a prerequisite: The strategies must not make any new demands on the budget,“ says the Director of the China Research Institute Merics, Mikko Huotari, in an interview.