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2023-05-23 23:08:59 UTC - HELPFUL
Rated by Participant: 77AB788788750DA7C23422E76E9F50825B4AAAC92F4C94BE3D0282F8B11485F3
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Japan is actually the largest holder of US Treasury Securities, not China. https://ticdata.treasury.gov/Publish/mfh.txt Speaker McCarthy may be focussing on Chinese investment to manipulate public perception, since (currently) the US tends to see Japan as an ally & China as a threat. https://apnews.com/article/biden-kishida-hiroshima-g7-japan-98a6fa31248fb7ac23f2a760019ada7e https://www.foreignaffairs.com/united-states/whats-really-going-between-russia-and-china https://apnews.com/article/politics-united-states-government-china-antony-blinken-51e49202f2a0a50541cde059934c4cfb https://apnews.com/article/china-taiwan-united-states-semiconductors-926829e7708369e41649f1f3dfbd032b
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