>>•United Kingdom: 0.9%
•Brazil: 1.6%
•”Oil Exporters”, which includes Ecuador, Venezuela, Indonesia, Bahrain, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait,Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Algeria, Gabon, Libya, Nigeria and the United Arab Emirates: 1.7%
•Japan: 7.0%
•China (including Hong Kong): 8.1% <<
Big question: How much do these countries owe US?
Depends what you mean.
If you mean “owe the U.S. Federal government”, probably precious little since the Federal government doesn’t have a sovereign wealth fund (though a few “Red” states do, Alaska, Alabama and Wyoming) unless it’s to U.S. Federal pension funds. If you mean “owe Americans” probably a fair bit, as most of us with properly diversified investment portfolios either individually held or managed by someone else on our behalf, us being pension beneficiaries, hold some foreign government bonds, though nothing comparable to the Federal debt.
On the other hand, once one starts looking at things beyond the Federal government on that side of the balance, one needs to look at the same on the “we owe them” side as well: how much in state and municipal bonds are held by foreigners? how much in U.S. corporate bonds do foreigners hold? How much do we collectively (all levels of government, corporations, individuals) hold of comparable foreign-issued debt?