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China's holdings of U.S. Treasuries fall to lowest level since 2009
By Arjun Neil Alim, Cheng Leng, Harriet Clarfelt
Financial Times, London
Wednesday, February 19, 2025
China's holdings of Treasuries have fallen to their lowest level since 2009, as Beijing holds more of its U.S. government bonds through lower-profile accounts and diversifies into alternative assets.
The value of U.S. sovereign debt held by Chinese investors fell by $57 billion to $759 billion in 2024, data published by the U.S. Treasury on Tuesday showed. This does not include Chinese-owned Treasuries held in accounts in other countries.
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Analysts say the change partly reflects China's desire to diversify its foreign reserves by buying assets such as gold. But they add that Beijing is seeking to disguise the true extent of its Treasury holdings by shifting them to custodian accounts registered elsewhere.
"China made a decision around 2010 that holding Treasuries was a risk, it looked bad optically that so much of China's wealth was in the hands of a geopolitical rival," said Brad Setser, a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations and former U.S. Treasury official. ...
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