Why Japan is Selling So Much U.S. Debt

Japan has sold over $200 billion in U.S. treasuries over the past three years, and here’s why.

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  1. Japan's Tarrifs Negotiating Team returned from the first round of talks with Trump, with this conclusion: We are dealing with an "extortionist".

  2. Japan is not an ally of the US, it is a vassal, and the US bases are an occupation force with no interest in "stability." They are there not to defend Japan but to threaten China.

  3. Looks to me that usa is extorting Japan to invest in USA bonds maybe they wrote that in the constitution America wrote for Japan

  4. The Japanese are polite people with common sense. The US currency will lose it's value in time due to the world preferring to deal with each other in regional and other currencies. As the world trades less with and increasingly isolationist USA, the demand for dollars will fall and thus it's value. Why hold a depreciating asset?

  5. 🧡 US / America calls it "Liberation" instead of "Invasion". That was what US call it in Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Syria, Yemen, Somalia and the list goes on… Why the double standard? Confused… Please enlighten. Genuine question…

    Instances of the United States "liberated" or overthrowing, or attempting to overthrow, a foreign government since the Second World War. (* indicates successful ouster of a government)

    China 1949 to early 1960s
    Albania 1949-53
    East Germany 1950s
    Iran 1953 *
    Guatemala 1954 *
    Costa Rica mid-1950s
    Syria 1956-7
    Egypt 1957
    Indonesia 1957-8
    British Guiana 1953-64 *
    Iraq 1963 *
    North Vietnam 1945-73
    Cambodia 1955-70 *
    Laos 1958 *, 1959 *, 1960 *
    Ecuador 1960-63 *
    Congo 1960 *
    France 1965
    Brazil 1962-64 *
    Dominican Republic 1963 *
    Cuba 1959 to present
    Bolivia 1964 *
    Indonesia 1965 *
    Ghana 1966 *
    Chile 1964-73 *
    Greece 1967 *
    Costa Rica 1970-71
    Bolivia 1971 *
    Australia 1973-75 *
    Angola 1975, 1980s
    Zaire 1975
    Portugal 1974-76 *
    Jamaica 1976-80 *
    Seychelles 1979-81
    Chad 1981-82 *
    Grenada 1983 *
    South Yemen 1982-84
    Suriname 1982-84
    Fiji 1987 *
    Libya 1980s
    Nicaragua 1981-90 *
    Panama 1989 *
    Bulgaria 1990 *
    Albania 1991 *
    Iraq 1991
    Afghanistan 1980s *
    Somalia 1993
    Yugoslavia 1999-2000 *
    Ecuador 2000 *
    Afghanistan 2001 *
    Venezuela 2002 *
    Iraq 2003 *
    Haiti 2004 *
    Somalia 2007 to present
    Honduras 2009 *
    Libya 2011 *
    Syria 2012
    Ukraine 2014 *
    2014 – 2022 – 9 countries yet to verify.
    Pakistan 2022 *
    Haiti 2022 *
    Niger 2023
    Haiti 2024
    Congo 2024 *

  6. With the US dollar dropping, it makes no sense to hold a depreciating asset. In one month alone the USD dropped from 152 to 142 yen

  7. U s Trump is making money for himself
    It doesn't manner where America is reducing his dollar debet treasury bond
    All are day by day loosing
    His balance sheet lower and lower once a America will become just like pakistan due to trump policy
    Dollar only paper currency
    No one insist on dollar
    How much gold reserve in America not declare yet
    Alun musk is in trouble
    Alon musk should be president of america the great minded pupil in world

  8. They see what everyone else ate seeing. That the US are bacoming an unstable cou try that wlwct a criminal bully as president and a non working congress. Also the corrupt High justices dont make thing better. Every country who owns US bonds can one day read on X or truth social that they refuse to pay intrest and dept.

  9. US started to increase its weaponization of the dolar and assets in their economies since the russian special military operation started. countries took notice and started to take steps to prevent to be next on the chopping block because of whatever reason the US will say to turn the weapon next to them

  10. At last the modern Japanese SAMURAI had emerged…Japan had reduced a very big amount of their US treasury holdings…to protect their economy frm falling apart due to the sinking of the dollar value! 🫡🫡👍👍👍🇯🇵🇯🇵

  11. As an American I seen since 2020 the 30 yr treasury dropped about 50-60% this explains faith in thr u.s dollar and high rates destroying old bond prices. Why would anyone want to lend if your borrower tries printing their way out and still tax you for the intrest.

  12. Japan knows better and faster than any countries in this world that under president trump the American economy will fall worst than before the second world war so they have to sell them before others will follow

  13. Japan holds US debt because it ran trade surpluses and needs somewhere to park all those dollar assets. If they couldn’t hold USdebt they would have to run much smaller export surpluses as there would be nowhere to put all those surpluses.