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Updated April 17, 2017. The U.S. debt to China is $1.059 trillion, as of February 2017. That's 27.8 percent of the $3.8 trillion in Treasury bills, notes, and bonds held by foreign countries. The rest of the $19.9 trillion national debt is owned by either the American people or by the U.S. government itself.
China spent the first few months of 2015 selling debt and calling in loans, decreasing its total to less than $1.2 trillion. Meanwhile, Japan increased its holdings of U.S. debt to over $1.23 trillion, taking over the top spot among foreign creditors.hy China Owns So Much US Debt. There are two main economic reasons why Chinese lenders bought up so many U.S. Treasuries. The first and most important is that China wants its own currency, the yuan, pegged to the dollar.