StarChild: The Chinese Are Buying Gold, Selling Treasuries – Should You?
China has run a $4 trillion trade surplus with the US since 2000. So, no shock China is the largest single holder of US Treasury debt (outside of the Federal Reserve)
and has accumulated nearly a trillion dollars in US Treasury debt since ’00. In total, China now holds $1.24 trillion in US Treasury bonds.
Despite China continuing to run perpetually larger trade surplus’ with the US, China ceased accumulating Treasury debt (net) in July of 2011
(coincident with the US debt ceiling debate…and the peak in Gold prices) and has been net selling US Treasury debt since.
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-09-03/chinese-are-buying-gold-selling-treasuries-should-you
