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  China is the biggest creditor to the US national debt

Uh, no it ain't. Not even close. Domestic funds are the lions share, with Social Security Trust holding 2.5x what China does (2.8t vs 1.1t).

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Uh, excuse me, can you check this?

http://money.cnn.com/2017/08/16/investing/china-us-debt-trea...

Do you want me to be more precise? Foreign creditor?

"The Treasury Department has ranked China as the biggest foreign creditor to the U.S. for the overwhelming majority of the past nine years. "

"Biggest foreign creditor" and "biggest creditor" are worlds apart; it's not just about being more precise. More than two thirds of US debt is held domestically.

foreign. That sense said just creditor without the 'foreign' bit.

I think the OP wanted to make clear that domestic creditors far outweigh any foreign one so saying "biggest creditor" was a deceptive statement.

>>Do you want me to be more precise? Foreign creditor?

That's not being more precise. That's something entirely different.

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