🇨🇳In 2013, China held $1.3 trillion in U.S. Treasuries.

Today? Just $759 billion. And falling fast.

In Q1 2025 alone, Beijing unloaded $53.3 billion - coinciding perfectly with rising tariffs and the most violent weekly bond market moves in decades.

• 10-year Treasury yields spiked 41–45% overnight

• The moves happened during Beijing trading hours

• The same week the U.S. imposed 125% tariffs on Chinese imports

But is it Coincidence? Or economic warfare?

The way I see it, the U.S. bond market - which has long been the cornerstone of global finance - is being shaken at its roots.

And with it, the cost of everything from mortgages to business credit is rising.

#China isn’t "diversifying." It’s de-dollarizing.

And the world is watching.

The dollar’s privileged status is no longer untouchable.

What replaces it won’t be decided in boardrooms or press conferences

It’ll be decided in the moves no one’s supposed to see,

and the exits already underway.

P.S. Reserve status isn’t lost in a day. But it starts with days like these #Nostr.

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They also sold 15000 btc recently??

Yes I read so but didn’t verify yet

Will be interesting to see what happens.

Whenever China unloads all of their US treasuries thats one less piece of leverage they have to play.

I'd guess they'll continue doing strategic dumps at inoportune times from the US's perspective.

All of this probably keeps Bessent up at night

Checks this out. They contend that Bessent won this round. That their coordinated dumping was unable to cause a Liz Truss moment.

https://fountain.fm/episode/x1KjbAArOmAE8Odmd2Lt

They also buy via London, so I think they hold much more than this.

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If the US signalled they are going to BTC, it sure looks like china’s response is they are going to gold. Agreed?

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.

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

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This is a little scary. Just like when the US squeezed Britain during the Seuz Crisis.

Black Friday is in play again

If they buy 50% Bitcoin then it's a great move.

If it's only gold then it's only 2d chess. :D