The Federal Bureau of Investigation () quietly killed a $100 million project to build a National Garden in Washington, D.C. just two miles from the U.S. as the intelligence community becomes increasingly concerned that Chinese investments in the U.S. are being is to increase their spying capabilities. In 2017, local Washington officials and Chinese leaders celebrated a deal to build an ornate Chinese garden in the National Arboretum. The plan was to transform a 12-acre field in the arboretum with temples and pavilions and native Chinese shrubbery.It was believed that Chinese officials were eager to foot the bill for the project as a way to mend U.S.-Sino relations, the way that the Japanese did by gifting thousands of their cherry trees to D.C.
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