/pol/ is shit Trump paying off Chinas debt at an accelerated

Who cares.

>>2016874
Basically this.

Don't try to understand the Trump regime. He has never bothered.

I kid. I have no idea what his agenda is, but I suspect that it's poorly thought out and might even be solely a move for the purposes of political optics. It will, if he's paying them off early, give them larger USD currency reserves and take a chunk out of the discretionary budget which will further starve non-DOD related contractors. It won't significantly effect our political relationship with China, but incidentally it will strengthen their ability to continue to peg their currency to ours.

Net results: +Chinese Imports, -Discretionary Funds

>>2016854
China has a rapidly rising debt problem. It is an attempt to prevent a call on the debt all at once when the debt bubble bursts.

>>2016904

>prevent a call on the debt all at once

Do you even know how bonds work? They can't "call on the debt all at once", the worst they can do is offload treasury bonds onto the market all at once and gum up the sale of new treasury bonds which would be a bit nasty if we were trying to curb inflation at the time.

>>2016910
>Do you even know how bonds work?
Callable bonds are a real and not a figment of my imagination. I don't know how treasuries work because I never deal with them.

>>2016925

There are probably all sorts of exotic bonds that you can purchase. Treasury bonds typically are not that sort afaik.

Could the Chinese fuck up our monetary policy for some quick cash? Yes. It would draw an almost nuclear level of response from us though in financial terms, and China would lose more than they would gain from such a thing.

>>2016854
those ambitious tax cuts tho