[investigateworld]

Just wondering why they hold so much in US notes/bonds etc.
Unless dumping the lot would hurt us?

[Southack]

"Just wondering why they hold so much in US notes/bonds etc. Unless dumping the lot would hurt us?"

They hold all of those notes in order to prop up our currency. That enables the U.S. to purchase more of their exports.

If the Dollar declines, then we can't buy as much of their stuff.

So it is in their own interests, and against ours, to prop up the Dollar.