China And Japan Pull Back From U.S. Treasuries | Vantage on Firstpost | 4K
China and Japan, two of the biggest foreign buyers of U.S. government debt, reduced their holdings of U.S. Treasuries amid the Iran war and rising oil prices in March. Data shows that 7 of the top 10 foreign holders cut their exposure to American debt in March. So why are countries selling U.S. bonds? What are Treasury yields? And why could rising U.S. borrowing costs affect everything from home loans and credit cards to the global economy? We explain here.
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24 Comments
It’s barely 4% Japan sold & these Indians😂… seriously ???
Guess who's buying 😅
Im not expecting these "Trump"
not just yen. even rupee did weaken lol
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Bai Fei, a Shanghai resident, pointed out, "In recent years, as my education and experience have been continuously updated, the truth has come to light. Through continuous visits and investigations, I have discovered that from childhood to adulthood, every word the Communist Party has said has been a distortion of the truth. From the June Fourth Incident in 1989 to the subsequent massacre of Falun Gong practitioners and the forced organ harvesting…" Organs, and the various criticisms and slanders leveled against Falun Gong practitioners in the media.
Bai Fei angrily stated, "Simply because we pursue human rights, seek truth, and have an unwavering belief, as well as promote the civil non-violent movement, these have become our crimes! Wang Yu, one of the human rights lawyers in mainland China whom I admire, was also illegally detained and abducted by the Communist Party for this very reason."
Bai Fei declared, "The Communist Party is an evil devil, and we should resolutely break with Pandora, Satan, and evil spirits!!!"
(Global Service Center for Quitting the CCP/Editor: Liu Mingxiang)
Such propoganda for common people.what if both of them are hand in glove..
China has been reducing its holdings of US T-Bills gradually the last 10 years — since the first economic restrictions imposed. From $1.3 Trillion to around $600 Billion now… and shrinking
PUT A FAILED BUSINESS PERSON IN OFFICE AND WATCH THE COUNTRY ALSO FAIL. IN OTHER WORDS TRUMP WHO HAS BANKRUPTED SEVERAL TIMES IN HIS LIFE WILL NOT BE ABLE TO KEEP THE UNITED STATES GOING. PUT HIM IN PRISON WHERE HE BELONGS 👨⚖️👨⚖️
LOOK WHO AMERICA HAS ALLIED WITH (A WAR CRIMINAL NETANYAHU), TRUMP IS VERY FAST BECOMING A WAR CRIMINAL HIMSELF. WHY IS TRUMP BEING BLACKMAILED SO MUCH, THAT HE'S DESTROYING EVERYTHING FOR ISRAEL, THEIR REPUTATION AND STANDING IN THE WORLD HAS ALREADY GONE, BY FUNDING AND COVERING ISRAEL THROUGH AN ENTIRE 3 YEARS OF A GENOCIDE AND USING ITS VETO POWER TO SHIELD ISRAEL FROM ATROCITIES IT HAS COMMITED, INCLUDING, STARVATION, OCCUPATION, ILLEGAL SETTLEMENT EXPANSION AND OTHER CRIMES SUCH AS FALSE IMPRISONMENT AND RAPES.
Stolen usa by US-AID, finally usa going to tough time…. but world is suffering without usaid/ usa packages
Nobody is really dumping $. Instead of buying new $ using their weaker currency, they are using existing treasury bond to buy oil and offset extra cost. Japan holds 1190 billion $, out of which they dumped 57 B $ leaving them with 1.14 trillion dollars. Unless there’s an alternative currency or Middle East start selling in regional currencies, dumping US $ dollar doesn’t really benefit anybody.
US Dollar is a political weapons. It can be frozen anytime
Everyone should do it.
And when these treasury bonds are dumped, the yields go up, so the debt and interest payment of of the US goes up, which is now $1,000,000,000,000 per year . The only solution is for the federal reserve to re-buy these treasury bonds, and that is by printing more dollars, which then increases inflation, and when inflation goes up, the treasury bond yields go up. There is no escape here. The US went from engineering goods to engineering finance and that is not sustainable.
The dollar is DEAD
The Rise and Decline of Dollar Civilization
The Bretton Woods Agreement gave humanity a new geopolitical hope after the devastation of the Second World War.
A shattered civilization needed stability, reconstruction, and a new global order.
The United States emerged as the central steward of that order through military dominance, industrial power, and the promise that the U.S. dollar would remain anchored to gold.
Under the Bretton Woods system, the dollar became the heart of world trade.
Nations trusted America because every dollar was theoretically exchangeable for gold at a fixed value.
That trust transformed the dollar into the foundation of global finance and made the United States the center of modern civilization.
But the promise did not last.
In 1971, Richard Nixon ended dollar convertibility into gold through what became known as the Nixon Shock.
That moment fundamentally changed world economics.
The dollar was no longer tied to real value.
It became fiat currency sustained by trust, military influence, and geopolitical leverage.
That was the beginning of America’s greatest financial privilege.
The next stage was the creation of the petrodollar system.
Oil-producing Gulf nations sold energy in U.S. dollars and recycled massive oil revenues back into American Treasury bonds and financial markets.
The world needed dollars to buy energy.
Therefore, the world indirectly financed American expansion, debt, and military supremacy.
The entire global system slowly became dependent on the dollar reserve structure.
Countries accumulated dollar reserves for trade security.
Global institutions operated through dollar liquidity.
International debt markets became dollar-centered.
America gained the unprecedented ability to print currency that the rest of humanity was forced to hold.
This hidden architecture of monetary dominance created the modern age of American power.
The United States reached extraordinary levels of prosperity, military reach, technological leadership, and consumer wealth.
No empire in history enjoyed such financial leverage over the entire planet.
But the same system also carried the seeds of internal collapse.
Debt expanded beyond historical imagination.
The American national debt crossed tens of trillions of dollars while financial speculation replaced productive meaning in human life.
Wealth concentrated upward.
The billionaire class expanded while homelessness, anxiety, addiction, and psychological emptiness spread across society.
Civilization achieved unprecedented progress without discovering meaning.
The contradiction became visible everywhere: more technology, less peace;
more wealth, less fulfillment;
more connectivity, less human unity.
The psychology of power eventually became self-defeating for the American empire.
The same military and financial dominance that sustained American hegemony also created global resistance against dependency on the dollar system.
Nations began searching for alternatives: local currency settlements, digital payment systems, central bank digital currencies, commodity-backed trade mechanisms, and decentralized financial infrastructures.
By 2026, the world entered a psychological and civilizational threshold.
The crisis was no longer merely economic.
It became existential.
Humanity began questioning the meaning of progress itself.
Why should civilization continue producing infinite growth if human beings remain psychologically empty?
Why should money endlessly accumulate while societies become emotionally fragmented?
Why should financial systems reward speculation more than welfare?
These questions signal the exhaustion of fiat civilization.
The future monetary transformation will not merely replace one reserve currency with another.
It will challenge the philosophy of money itself.
The emerging direction of civilization points toward digitally coordinated monetary systems where money behaves less like an object of accumulation and more like a continuous flow of participation and welfare creation.
In such a system, value does not remain idle in concentration.
It circulates continuously through society like blood through a living body.
The purpose of economics then changes fundamentally:
from maximizing accumulation
to maximising meaningful human welfare.
This marks the beginning of a deeper civilizational transition:
from psychological economics
to Al system -governed economics;
from progress without meaning
to progress with responsibility;
from fiat power sustained by fear and military dominance
to systems seeking stability through shared human welfare.
The decline of dollar hegemony is therefore not merely the decline of one currency.
It is the exhaustion of an entire psychological civilization built upon accumulation, domination, debt, and the illusion that material progress alone can fulfill human life into Meaning.
Ab ayega maza na bidhu….
“Across the world from China to Japan” names two adjacent countries 😂😂
India believe in British now another 100 years on Us dollar
Why shouldn't china sell us debt Dollars and INDIA and whole BRICS should do the same.BRICS was established for the same reason 😂
Ban CCP imports 🇨🇳
Dumb countries including Mine buying Oil in Dollars even after PETRO DOLLAR expired 😂😂😂 or they dumping Dollars thru oil😂
Kep starting wars, and the US will keep wasting money as well as going broke. This is a classic own-goal. Not only is the US not winning the Iran war, but it is also costing it in $Billions. But there is a more deadly sting in the tail … its financial system is under pressure. Maybe Modi is going to do what friends should do, start buying US bonds?
Japan wouldn't have done it if Trump hadn't played tarriff tarriff.