You are talking about, sir. Lets hear from cheryl in florida, the independent line. Good morning. Caller good morning. Very glad to be here. I would like to ask the guests this morning if he thinks the United States of america is too dependant on chinas money . Go ahead. Its true that the largest external creditor for the government is china. If china had not been able and willing to lend a lot of money to the United States, who would have . Somehow the u. S. External deficits had to be financed . Its just so happened china had large surpluses and the credit to invest in the u. S. Treasuries so thats an uncomfortable situation where china is the largest creditor. How much debt does china hold now . Of the federal treasuries, its according to the latest treasury information that i have seen, about 1. 3 trillion worth of treasuries, but thats not the sum total. Chinese hold significant interests in freddie may and freddie mac, and and they hold significant amounts of Municipal Bonds and
You are talking about, sir. Lets hear from cheryl in florida, the independent line. Good morning. Caller good morning. Very glad to be here. I would like to ask the guests this morning if he thinks the United States of america is too dependant on chinas money . Go ahead. Its true that the largest external creditor for the government is china. If china had not been able and willing to lend a lot of money to the United States, who would have . Somehow the u. S. External deficits had to be financed . Its just so happened china had large surpluses and the credit to invest in the u. S. Treasuries so thats an uncomfortable situation where china is the largest creditor. How much debt does china hold now . Of the federal treasuries, its according to the latest treasury information that i have seen, about 1. 3 trillion worth of treasuries, but thats not the sum total. Chinese hold significant interests in freddie may and freddie mac, and and they hold significant amounts of Municipal Bonds and
Hour, next. Rose funding for charlie rose has been provided by the following rose additional funding provided by and by bloomberg, a provider of multimedia news and information worldwide. Captioning sponsored by Rose Communications from our studios in new york city, this is charlie rose. Rose thank you for the opportunity to visit with you at the pentagon. Let me begin with the question of National Security and how you perceive the biggest threats to america in some order of priority. Charlie, thank you. And thanks for coming today. We are living at one of these times in history where there is a confluence of threats and challenges. Like i dont think weve ever seen before, certainly in our lifetime, the sophistication of technology. So many other factors have brought this on. Obviously, terrorism, what terrorism is today, the sophistication, the financing, of terrorist groups is right up there at the top. And we are dealing with our partners across the globe. Conventional dimensions of
Hour, next. Rose funding for charlie rose has been provided by the following rose additional funding provided by and by bloomberg, a provider of multimedia news and information worldwide. Captioning sponsored by Rose Communications from our studios in new york city, this is charlie rose. Rose thank you for the opportunity to visit with you at the pentagon. Let me begin with the question of National Security and how you perceive the biggest threats to america in some order of priority. Charlie, thank you. And thanks for coming today. We are living at one of these times in history where there is a confluence of threats and challenges. Like i dont think weve ever seen before, certainly in our lifetime, the sophistication of technology. So many other factors have brought this on. Obviously, terrorism, what terrorism is today, the sophistication, the financing, of terrorist groups is right up there at the top. And we are dealing with our partners across the globe. Conventional dimensions of
Hour, next. Rose funding for charlie rose has been provided by the following rose additional funding provided by and by bloomberg, a provider of multimedia news and information worldwide. Captioning sponsored by Rose Communications from our studios in new york city, this is charlie rose. Rose thank you for the opportunity to visit with you at the pentagon. Let me begin with the question of National Security and how you perceive the biggest threats to america in some order of priority. Charlie, thank you. And thanks for coming today. We are living at one of these times in history where there is a confluence of threats and challenges. Like i dont think weve ever seen before, certainly in our lifetime, the sophistication of technology. So many other factors have brought this on. Obviously, terrorism, what terrorism is today, the sophistication, the financing, of terrorist groups is right up there at the top. And we are dealing with our partners across the globe. Conventional dimensions of