General demand can easily push issuance value exceeding 1 trillion yuan ($161 billion) this year.. What this means is that China’s massive debt burden is about to get massiv-er, as banks use ABS issuance as a pressure valve to free up lending capacity.
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-04-22/china-has-massive-debt-problem-and-why-it-about-get-much-massiver
To put its ownership of U.S. debt in perspective, China's holding of $1.24 trillion is even larger than the amount owned by American households. U.S. citizens hold only about $959 billion in U.S. debt, according to the Federal Reserve.
https://www.thoughtco.com/how-much-debt-does-china-own-3321769
China holds the largest share of U.S. debt but less than a quarter of the total $5.6 trillion in foreign-held debt. And China's share is not the largest by a very wide margin; Japan has $1.14 billion worth, which is pretty close to China's investment.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2013/10/10/this-surprising-chart-shows-which-countries-own-the-most-u-s-debt/
The third-highest foreign holder of U.S. debt is Brazil, with $256 billion. European countries hold about $1 trillion in combined U.S. debt; $1.14 trillion if you include Russia. The largest holder of U.S. debt is, of course, the United States itself; the majority is American-owned. world.
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Japan took the lead over Mainland China as the top foreign owner of U.S. government debt even though entities in both countries decreased their holdings of U.S. debt in February. At the end of January, entities in Mainland China had held $1239.1 billion in U.S. government debt and entities in Japan had held $1238.6 billion. During February, the Japanese decreased their holdings by $14.2 billion, ending the month with $1,224.4 billion in U.S. government debt.
http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/terence-p-jeffrey/china-no-longer-top-foreign-owner-us-debt
And those numbers are now more in doubt than ever. China's total debt-to-GDP ratio is 240 to 270 percent, depending whom you ask, and that's a sizable increase from the roughly 150 percent of a decade ago. And that jump has occurred while China's GDP has grown strongly — meaning the debt is ballooning wildly.
https://www.cnbc.com/2016/05/09/chinas-debt-worse-than-you-think-but-maybe-not-be-a-problem.html
China has a $28 trillion problem. That’s the country’s total government, corporate and household debt load as of mid-2014, according to McKinsey & Co. It’s equal to 282 percent of the country’s total annual economic output.
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(Source: Debt to the Penny, U.S. Treasury. Debt FAQ, U.S. Treasury.) America's debt is the largest in the world for a single country. It runs neck and neck with that of the European Union, an economic union of 28 countries. For more, see Sovereign Debt Rankings. The debt is greater than what America produces in a whole year. This high debt-to-GDP ratio tells investors that the country might have problems repaying the loans. That's a new and worrying occurrence for the United States. In 1988, the debt was only half of America's economic output.
https://www.thebalance.com/the-u-s-debt-and-how-it-got-so-big-3305778
According to the Treasury, the largest foreign holder of U.S. debt is China, which owns more than $1.24 trillion in bills, notes, and bonds or about 30% of the over $4 trillion in Treasury bills, notes, and bonds held by foreign countries. In total, China owns about 10% of publicly held U.S. debt.
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ype=node title=Japan Surpasses China in Ownership of U.S. Debt. But the Chinese decreased their holdings of U.S. debt by $15.4 billion, ending the month owning $1223.7 billion. Thus, at the end of February, the Japanese edged out the Chinese $1,224.4 billion to $1223.7 billion in ownership of U.S. government debt.
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what debt does china carry for the us
China carries $1.24 trillion debt for the United States. China carries debt of $1.24 trillion for the United States.