26. Trade · Notable · Contested — excluded from counts
Prohibit Chinese sovereign bonds in U.S. investors' portfolios
Printed page 789 26. Trade · from “The Case for Fair Trade”
“Prohibit the inclusion of Chinese sovereign bonds in U.S. investors’ portfolios.”
What has happened
- Not started
No instrument prohibits, restricts or discourages holding Chinese sovereign bonds. Federal Register full text since 2025-01-20 returns nothing for "Chinese sovereign" or "Chinese sovereign bonds"; the four documents matching "sovereign bonds" are CFTC customer-funds and Form PF rules and a Treasury regulatory-capital proposal, and the single document matching "sovereign bonds" together with China is that capital proposal. The bills Corpus has no bill on the subject. The America First Investment Policy memorandum of 2025-02-21 reaches equities, variable interest entities and pension contributions; sovereign debt is not among the instruments it names.
No action found yet. This entry is the starting point, not a finding.
Research log
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Research notes
Worth separating from #2082 and #2083, which the same memorandum does move: those two are attempted because the memorandum directs action on exactly what they ask for, and this one is not started because it does not. The three sit in one paragraph of the Mandate and the administration’s single instrument answers two of them and skips the third - which is the case for reading the operative text rather than leveling a page cluster in one stroke.
Queries are recorded in the cluster negative search in docs/research/ch-26.md.
- Action
- restrict
- Object
- Chinese sovereign bonds in U.S. portfolios
- ID
- 2085