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The actual amount is more like 300 billion. Peanuts.
Wow, less than 4% of our Federal deficit. Sounds series.
I think you mean 4% of our Federal debt, not deficit. Also, I suspect that you mean "serious" not "series". In any case, the following graph shows the major foreign holders of the debt through March of 2005.
The actual numbers and sources can be found at http://home.att.net/~rdavis2/tshldrs.html and updated numbers can be found at http://www.treas.gov/tic/mfh.txt. The top ten foreign holders of Treasury securites as of October 2005 were as follows:
MAJOR FOREIGN HOLDERS OF TREASURY SECURITIES (end of October 2005, in billions of dollars) Japan 681.6 Mainland China 247.6 United Kingdom 187.1 Caribbean Banking Center 113.5 Taiwan 71.6 Germany 64.4 OPEC 63.8 Korea 61.4 Canada 51.7 Hong Kong 47.5 ------------------------ ------ All Foreign Nations 2102.0