A Bloomberg report that Chinese officials are considering halting purchases of US government debt triggered a sell-off in the US Treasury market today. In fact, China has not been buying US debt for most of the last few years. And, in practice, the People’s Bank has fewer choices over the size or allocation of its foreign exchange purchases than is sometimes assumed.
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