China continues to reduce its holdings of U.S. Treasury bonds

[China Epoxy Network (China Epoxy Industry Online)February 21, 2010: China has continuously reduced its holdings and Japan has become the country that holds the most US Treasury bonds.
Data released by the U.
S.
Treasury Department on the 16th showed that in December last year, Japan increased its holdings of U.
S.
Treasury bonds by US$11.
5 billion, surpassing China to become the country with the most U.
S.
Treasury bonds.
According to data released by the U.
S.
Treasury Department that day, in December 2009, overseas investors reduced their holdings of US Treasury bonds by US$53 billion, a record high, far higher than the US$44.
5 billion reduction record set in April of that year.
Among the major countries that hold US Treasury bonds, Japan increased its holdings by US$11.
5 billion in December 2009 to US$768.
8 billion, making it the largest creditor nation of the United States.
China reduced its holdings by US$34.
2 billion that month and now holds US$755.
4 billion in U.
S.
Treasury bonds, making it the second largest creditor nation in the United States.
This is also the second consecutive month that China has reduced its holdings of US Treasury bonds.
According to experts from the China Epoxy Industry Association ( in addition, the United Kingdom increased its holdings of US Treasury bonds by US$24.
9 billion to US$302.
5 billion that month; Brazil increased its holdings by US$3.
5 billion to US$160.
6 billion; Russia Reduced holdings by US$9.
6 billion to US$118.
5 billion.

(Our reporter Huan Yang)

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