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For First Time in a Quarter Century, China No Longer Second-Largest Holder of US Treasury Debt
For First Time in a Quarter Century, China No Longer Second-Largest Holder of US Treasury Debt
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Japan’s Treasury holdings remain the world’s largest, currently standing at $1.13trn. Japan warned in early May that it could use its holdings as a trump card in trade talks with Trump.
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China and the UK have flipped places in the ranking of top foreign holders of US Treasuries, with the Asian nation’s holdings shrinking from $784bn to $765bn from February and March, while Britain’s grew from $749bn to $779bn during the same period.“This is a warning to the US,” Natixis Asia-Pacific chief economist Alicia Garcia-Herrero told UK business media, pointing out that China has been slowly offloading its US Treasury assets for years after hitting a peak of over $1.3tn in 2011.Russia sold off virtually all of its US Treasuries in 2018 amid US readiness to use the dollar as a weapon, with current holdings of about $25mln down from a historic high of $176.3bn in October 2010.
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For First Time in a Quarter Century, China No Longer Second-Largest Holder of US Treasury Debt
16:17 GMT 17.05.2025 (Updated: 14:08 GMT 25.05.2025) Japan’s Treasury holdings remain the world’s largest, currently standing at $1.13trn. Japan warned in early May that it could use its holdings as a trump card in trade talks with Trump.
China and the UK have flipped places in the ranking of top foreign holders of US Treasuries, with the Asian nation’s holdings shrinking from $784bn to $765bn from February and March, while Britain’s grew from $749bn to $779bn during the same period.
Britain’s Treasury holdings haven’t been higher than China’s since October 2000, when the People’s Republic’s economy was far smaller (3.3% vs 19.6%), and the UK’s larger (3.3% vs 2%), as a percentage of global GDP.
“This is a warning to the US,” Natixis Asia-Pacific chief economist Alicia Garcia-Herrero
told UK business media, pointing out that China has been slowly offloading its US Treasury assets for years after hitting a peak of over $1.3tn in 2011.
Russia sold off virtually all of its US Treasuries in 2018 amid US readiness to use the dollar as a weapon, with current holdings of about $25mln down from a historic high of $176.3bn in October 2010.
