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It is, read the tile of the chart "MAJOR FOREIGN HOLDERS OF TREASURY SECURITIES" Also, the complete sentence that you quoted They use sources that have both US resident and foreign holdings to estimate just the foreign component. Sorry for nitpicking, 32% vs ~7% is a huge difference. You...

I'll reply to the rest of the post later but that figure is for foreign bond holders which make up about 32.5% of the total US debt There's been a lot of attention in recent years over China rising to become one of the largest holders of U.S. debt. China's share of the debt is sizable -- about...

1. If they were to sell all their bonds, where would they park the money? They buy the bonds partly for safety. 2. If they were to sell everything, it would sell below face value in the market. Would they be willing to take the loss? 3. Upon selling everything, as a result of the trade surplus...