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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.
Even though its total share of the total U.S. public debt outstanding fell from 8.5% to 7.9% between FY 2012 and FY 2013, China increased the amount of its holdings of U.S. government-issued debt by nearly $130 billion, lending approximately 18% of all the new debt borrowed by the U.S. Treasury in Fiscal Year 2013.