{"id":131363,"date":"2025-05-11T04:21:37","date_gmt":"2025-05-11T04:21:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/teknomers.com\/en\/american-debt-a-negotiation-weapon-against-donald-trump-for-the-rest-of-the-world\/"},"modified":"2025-05-11T04:21:39","modified_gmt":"2025-05-11T04:21:39","slug":"american-debt-a-negotiation-weapon-against-donald-trump-for-the-rest-of-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/teknomers.com\/en\/american-debt-a-negotiation-weapon-against-donald-trump-for-the-rest-of-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"American debt, a negotiation weapon against Donald Trump for the rest of the world"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<figure class=\"article__media\"> <picture class=\"article__media\"><source srcset=\" https:\/\/img.lemde.fr\/2025\/05\/09\/0\/0\/4753\/3708\/556\/0\/75\/0\/4e79949_ftp-import-images-1-woscacqqdk0r-2025-05-09t155609z-604312562-rc2ldeatxi9v-rtrmadp-3-usa-trump-tariffs-china.JPG 556w, https:\/\/img.lemde.fr\/2025\/05\/09\/0\/0\/4753\/3708\/600\/0\/75\/0\/4e79949_ftp-import-images-1-woscacqqdk0r-2025-05-09t155609z-604312562-rc2ldeatxi9v-rtrmadp-3-usa-trump-tariffs-china.JPG 600w, https:\/\/img.lemde.fr\/2025\/05\/09\/0\/0\/4753\/3708\/664\/0\/75\/0\/4e79949_ftp-import-images-1-woscacqqdk0r-2025-05-09t155609z-604312562-rc2ldeatxi9v-rtrmadp-3-usa-trump-tariffs-china.JPG 664w, https:\/\/img.lemde.fr\/2025\/05\/09\/0\/0\/4753\/3708\/700\/0\/75\/0\/4e79949_ftp-import-images-1-woscacqqdk0r-2025-05-09t155609z-604312562-rc2ldeatxi9v-rtrmadp-3-usa-trump-tariffs-china.JPG 700w, https:\/\/img.lemde.fr\/2025\/05\/09\/0\/0\/4753\/3708\/800\/0\/75\/0\/4e79949_ftp-import-images-1-woscacqqdk0r-2025-05-09t155609z-604312562-rc2ldeatxi9v-rtrmadp-3-usa-trump-tariffs-china.JPG 800w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 1024px) 556px, 100vw\" alt=\"Donald Trump, pr\u00e9sident des Etats-Unis, le 8\u00a0mai 2025,\u00a0dans le bureau ovale, \u00e0 Washington.\" width=\"664\" height=\"443\"><\/source><\/picture> <noscript> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img.lemde.fr\/2025\/05\/09\/0\/0\/4753\/3708\/664\/0\/75\/0\/4e79949_ftp-import-images-1-woscacqqdk0r-2025-05-09t155609z-604312562-rc2ldeatxi9v-rtrmadp-3-usa-trump-tariffs-china.JPG\" alt=\"Donald Trump, President of the United States, on May 8, 2025, in the Oval office, in Washington.\"\/> <\/noscript><figcaption class=\"article__legend\" aria-hidden=\"true\">Donald Trump, President of the United States, on May 8, 2025, in the Oval office, in Washington.  <span class=\"article__credit\" aria-hidden=\"true\">Leah Millis \/ Reuters<\/span>  <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph  \">Katsunobu Kato dared to say aloud what everyone whispered in a low time. During an interview with TV Tokyo on Friday, May 2, the Japanese finance minister recognized that he could use the American debt held by Japan as a negotiation weapon against Donald Trump. <em>&#8220;This is a card that exists, but the decision to use it or not is something else. \u00bb\u00bb <\/em>The declaration made the financial circles start. This is the best Asian ally of the United States which threatens to use a formidable weapon against the United States.<\/p>\n<section class=\"catcher catcher--favoris\">\n<p> <button class=\"lmd-btn-icon lmd-btn-icon--primary lmd-btn-icon--m js-lmd-dropdown-favorite-toggler\" aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-haspopup=\"true\" aria-controls=\"lmd-dropdown-favorite\" aria-label=\"Lire plus tard\" data-article-id=\"3421419\" data-position=\"lire aussi\" data-url=\"https:\/\/www.lemonde.fr\/economie\/article\/2025\/05\/07\/guerre-commerciale-la-chine-et-les-etats-unis-s-appretent-a-negocier_6603756_3234.html\" data-status=\"\"> <span class=\"icon__favorites\"\/> <span class=\"js-btn-icon-tooltip\" aria-hidden=\"true\">Read later<\/span> <\/button> <\/p>\n<\/section>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph  \">Today, Japan is the first foreign country with the United States Treasury bills, with $ 1,125 billion (1,000 billion euros). It is a little less than 4 % of the total of the American debt, but enough to cause an electroshock if he began to sell these titles en masse. Such a maneuver would cause a sharp increase in American interest rates, making it more expensive to finance its deficit by the United States.<\/p>\n<section class=\"catcher catcher--favoris\">\n<p> <button class=\"lmd-btn-icon lmd-btn-icon--primary lmd-btn-icon--m js-lmd-dropdown-favorite-toggler\" aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-haspopup=\"true\" aria-controls=\"lmd-dropdown-favorite\" aria-label=\"Lire plus tard\" data-article-id=\"3418029\" data-position=\"lire aussi\" data-url=\"https:\/\/www.lemonde.fr\/economie\/article\/2025\/04\/10\/droits-de-douane-comment-donald-trump-sape-la-confiance-des-investisseurs-envers-les-etats-unis_6593569_3234.html\" data-status=\"\"> <span class=\"icon__favorites\"\/> <span class=\"js-btn-icon-tooltip\" aria-hidden=\"true\">Read later<\/span> <\/button> <\/p>\n<\/section>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph  \">Proof of the subject&#8217;s sensitivity, two days after his declaration, Mr. Kato Retropedait: <em>\u201cWe do not plan to sell American treasury bills as part of the Japan &#8211; United States negotiations. \u00bb\u00bb<\/em> But the file is far from closed. Since the announcement of customs duties <em>&#8220;Converse&#8221;<\/em> By Donald Trump in early April, the rumor circulates in the markets: the Asians, Chinese in mind, would have sold part of their American treasury bills as a counter-offensive to the White House announcements.<\/p>\n<p class=\"reading-mode-only \"><strong>You have 67.84% of this article to read. The rest is reserved for subscribers.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/teknomers.com\/en\">Tm-En-1<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Donald Trump, President of the United States, on May 8, 2025, in the Oval office, in Washington. Leah Millis \/ Reuters Katsunobu Kato dared to say aloud what everyone whispered in a low time. During an interview with TV Tokyo on Friday, May 2, the Japanese finance minister recognized that he could use the American [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":131364,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2381,3057,407,25268,4321,404,1259,110],"class_list":["post-131363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","tag-american","tag-debt","tag-donald","tag-negotiation","tag-rest","tag-trump","tag-weapon","tag-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/teknomers.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131363","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/teknomers.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/teknomers.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teknomers.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teknomers.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131363"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/teknomers.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131363\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teknomers.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/131364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/teknomers.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teknomers.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teknomers.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}