Best I can tell, the amount of outstanding Treasuries more than doubled from 2013 to today. It looks to have been ~$12Tn in 2013/14 time frame, and ~$28Tn today. If so, China went from funding over 10% of US borrowing to under 3%, and falling.

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In context and comparison, Tether (as a big, relatively new buyer of US debt) only owns ~$113bn of Treasuries currently.