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Re:Trump Plans New Curbs on Chinese Investment, Tech Exports... by RobertRoberts on Tuesday June 26, 2018 @05:13PM (#17404043)
>Government bonds generally have a fixed term, so unless I'm mistaken, repayment can't be demanded all at once.

But espionage, market and currency manipulation, copyright and patent infringement and a miriad of other activities are illegal, yet China does them with impunity.

I can imagine they can demand whatever they want, (they are a sovereign nation) and can use that debt as a bargaining chip to be used in any negotiations.

In theory, I think you are correct, in practice, who know what is possible?

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Re:Trump Plans New Curbs on Chinese Investment, Tech Exports... by ericd on Wednesday June 27, 2018 @12:14AM (#17405707)
I guess, I don't know of any precedents for demanding bond repayment pre-term (though I'm not well versed in that history). Those others all have precedents, and most are things that it's generally accepted that almost all large nations engage in regularly to greater or lesser degrees.
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