Carlos Tapang
1 min readJul 27, 2018

The data you cite ends in 1984, more than three decades ago. Most recent data shows that China is now the largest foreign holder of US debt securities. Quoting Wikipedia:

“As of September 2014, foreigners owned $6.06 trillion of U.S. debt, or approximately 47% of the debt held by the public of $12.8 trillion and 34% of the total debt of $17.8 trillion.[41] As of 2018, the largest holders were China, Japan, Ireland, and Brazil.”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_debt_of_the_United_States

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Carlos Tapang
Carlos Tapang

Written by Carlos Tapang

Programmer and Entrepreneur, founder and CEO of RockStable, purveyors of ROKS, the stablecoin designed for daily use, like cash.

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