{"id":215328,"date":"2025-10-15T17:47:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T17:47:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/215328\/"},"modified":"2025-10-15T17:47:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T17:47:11","slug":"which-countries-hold-the-most-us-debt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/215328\/","title":{"rendered":"Which countries hold the most US debt?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>      Based on the data as of March 2025\u00a0    <\/p>\n<p>\n                    TBS Report\n          <\/p>\n<p>\n      14 October, 2025, 03:35 pm    <\/p>\n<p>\n      Last modified: 14 October, 2025, 03:42 pm    <\/p>\n<p>\n      Illustration: Ashrafun Naher Ananna\/TBS Creative<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;&gt; <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"adf-overlay ratio ratio__16x9 lazyload\" data-aspectratio=\"451\/254\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/us-debt.png\" width=\"451\" height=\"254\" alt=\"Illustration: Ashrafun Naher Ananna\/TBS Creative\" title=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n          Illustration: Ashrafun Naher Ananna\/TBS Creative        <\/p>\n<p class=\"rtejustify\">The US national debt, now at $36.2 trillion, is money the government borrows by issuing Treasury securities to finance its spending, with foreign countries holding $9.05 trillion. Countries buy US debt because it offers a safe, stable investment for their foreign currency reserves, helps manage exchange rates, and provides reliable interest income.<\/p>\n<p class=\"rtejustify\">Source: Al Jazeera<\/p>\n<p>        <a style=\"font-weight: bold; color: #2b4949; border-bottom: 1px solid #ccc; font-size: 18px;\" href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/publications\/CAAqBwgKMIivlQsw2ZKrAw?ceid=US:en&amp;oc=3\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n          <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tbsnews.net\/sites\/all\/themes\/sloth\/images\/google_news.svg\" alt=\"The Business Standard Google News\" style=\"display: inline-block; margin-right: 15px; margin-bottom: 10px; height: 30px;\"\/><br \/>\n            Keep updated, follow The Business Standard&#8217;s Google news channel<br \/>\n          <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Based on the data as of March 2025\u00a0 TBS Report 14 October, 2025, 03:35 pm Last modified: 14&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":215329,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[45,49,48,46],"class_list":["post-215328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-economy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215328","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=215328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215328\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/215329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}