Chinese Deals Lose Luster for Officials Across the U.S.

After a record 2016, Chinese direct investment plummets amid national-security concerns, failure to deliver on jobs

Some states and cities in the U.S. are growing wary of Chinese investment after a deal boom that raised national-security concerns and failed to deliver promised jobs.

Chinese developer Tan Zhixing rolled into rural Tyler, Texas, last September with a plan to spend $1.6 billion on a housing complex that promised to bring thousands of Chinese students to attend local schools and create more than 1,000 jobs for the surrounding county.

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