中国政府已经表示，它是看在是否提高国家的债务上限，美国的讨论，并增加了对奥巴马政府的压力，遏制赤字，根据彭博。上周五，中国的副财长，祝光耀记者表示，官员“正在密切关注着美国的债务和赤字在国内的讨论。”朱继续说，“我们希望美国能采取有效措施，向财政重组。”增加的关注带有中国在二月底举办世界领先的1.15万亿$国库券。
谭崖的兴业highlighted China’s role as “probably the most important customer” for U.S. Treasuries, and said, “In the event of the unthinkable happening in Congress failing to raise the debt ceiling, you’re going to have a major earthquake in global fixed-income markets.” Zhu encouraged the U.S. to “build a solid fiscal foundation for the long-term sustainable growth of the U.S. economy,” and also offered his commitment to continue improving the currency system and exchange rate mechanism for the yuan.