[Enlightened1]

How long will it be before China demands payments from all the U.S. Treasury Bonds?

[central_va]

How long will it be before China demands payments from all the U.S. Treasury Bonds?

Bonds mature all the time, its the way it works.

[Texas Eagle]

Gee. I hope China doesn’t start demanding the real estate we’ve been using as collateral.

[proxy_user]

They have no lack of foreign exchange. They can buy whatever goods they need from other countries.

Their problem is their internal, yuan-denominated economy.

[dhs12345]

Can they do that?

Doesn’t seem right that an investor can claim all future gains that instant. Unless, of course, US has defaulted.

However, China might use it as leverage in the world banking system.

[ShadowAce]

Wars have traditionally been waged as a result of poor economies. It’ll be interesting to see the reaction from this.

[Red Badger]

“It’s only paper.”...Sam Walton.......................

[P.O.E.]

復甦之夏 Fùsū zhī xià (Google Translate: "Summer of Recovery")

[DoodleDawg]

How long will it be before China demands payments from all the U.S. Treasury Bonds?

And do what with the funds? Sink into their stock market? U.S. Treasuries are about the only safe investment the China government has.

[struggle]

Let the Christians take over!

[Mike Darancette]

Can China feed itself?

[RayChuang88]

However, because so little of foreign money is invested in China, the effect on equities markets around the world should be minimal. The important thing here is that the Big Four banks of China (Bank of China, China Construction Bank, Industrial and Commercial Bank of China, and Agricultural Bank of China) are still very solvent, mostly because the Chinese government forced these banks to substantially increase their liquid asset reserves in light of the 2008 US stock market crash and that scary experience in Europe in 2010-2011.

In effect, these Big Four banks are the "economic backstop" preventing an all-out crash of the Chinese economy. And only a small number of Chinese were actually into the stock market, given the aversion to stock markets by most of the population.

[ameribbean expat]

They’ve actually been pretty steady on USTs for about a year now...

http://www.treasury.gov/ticdata/Publish/mfh.txt

[21st Century Crusader]

How long will it be before China demands payments from all the U.S. Treasury Bonds?

Not only will they demand payment, but with 0bama and congress continuing to fritter away OUR money, with them going bust

WHO WILL BUY OUR DEBT?

[EternalVigilance]

The biggest shock is that anyone is shocked when communist dictatorships fail economically.

[SunkenCiv]

How long will it be before China demands payments from all the U.S. Treasury Bonds?

Since the US bonds are China's largest single asset? Never.

Japan's economy cracked and crashed as a consequence of a reliance on exports to the US market -- this Chinese meltdown may be the same thing, at last. The Chinese have been a rat on a wheel for years now, having to keep the Chinese currency from rising against the dollar, which they did by buying US gov't debt. That has been financed by their trade surplus. The trade surplus will stop unless they keep buying US gov't debt. They didn't count on the Obama Recession and Obama Tax Hikes. It is still ironic that the 2013-2014 cratering of crude prices preceded this, but that's Obama for ya.

[MaxMax]

NYSE halting all trading

[Ethan Clive Osgoode]

If chinese meat is made of rats and glue, imagine what all these other chinese companies, businesses and “investments” are really made of.

[<1/1,000,000th%]

The Obama depression continues to unfold.