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johnd83

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2. I honestly have no idea

Reply to exboyfil (Reply #1)

Fri May 25, 2012, 01:18 PM

May 2012

I am not an economist or lawyer. I found the article and was a little shocked at first, but given the Chinese economic disaster middle of the 1900s it isn't that surprising. What is really amazing is not only did we give the Chinese huge amounts of money in trade, we also gave away nearly a trillion dollars before that. How much have we subsidized them over the years, and why are we still?

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Wait... China owes us $1 trillion? Is this article real? [View all] johnd83 May 2012 OP

Can you tie the current U.S. debt to the Chinese government owning these bond exboyfil May 2012 #1

I honestly have no idea johnd83 May 2012 #2

Yeah, but just think what we must owe cthulu2016 May 2012 #3

I know at least part of this is true. China, along with every other non-Axis nation except Egalitarian Thug May 2012 #4