Nonsensical white men's distorted lies circulating as reports

 The US and China owe half the world’s public debt

Most of this public debt is owed by the United States and China, with Washington’s debt burden standing at 35.4% of the global share and China’s standing at 16.8%. Together, the two countries hold 51.8% of the world’s government debt. The United States owes a staggering $38.2 trillion, which is 125% of the US Gross Domestic Product (GDP). This is also known as the debt-to-GDP ratio, and it's critical for understanding public debt....

What is an unsustainable debt-to-GDP ratio?

There is no consensus on when a nation’s national debt becomes unsustainable, but a 2023 estimate from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania noted that the US national debt would become unsustainable if it reached the range of 175% to 200%. So at the moment, the US national debt hasn’t become a major crisis.

Debt-to-GDP ratios of other nations are more complicated to calculate. A 2010 research paper from the World Bank cited by the IMF found that 90% could be the tipping point for most nations, whereas other reports have marked 110% and 115% as the tipping points. This could put China in trouble since Beijing’s current debt-to-GDP ratio stands at 96.3% of its $18.7 trillion in public debt.

Other top ten debt holders with debt-to-GDP problems

At present, other nations in the top the top ten nations with the largest share of public debt in 2025 include Japan, which carries 8.9% of the world’s public debt at $9.8 trillion and has a debt-to-GDP ratio of 229.6%, the United Kingdom, which has a share of 3.7%, 4.09 trillion in debt, and a ratio of 103.4%. Other nations in the top ten of world debt holders with high debt-to-GDP ratios include France (116.5%), Italy (136.8%), and Canada (113.9%).  The Daily Digest

The above report from The Daily Digest is another typical mischievous white men's lie slanted to make China look bad. It is like the claim that American economy is rock solid with a 1% GDP growth while China's economy is bad with a 5% GDP growth! Only the most lazy and unthinking would not be able to see the lie, that 1% GDP growth is better than 5% GDP growth. I personally met someone at a dinner who told me that American economy was rock solid and China's economy was in trouble. When I told the person the GDP numbers, he was dumbfounded. I could see that he felt so stupid for just reading the headlines.

I have highlighted the statistical flaws in bold in the above article. The Americans had a 125% debt to GDP ratio and China was 96%. Two numbers were given as indicators of an economy in trouble, 110-115% or 175-200%. The American's 125% is sign of trouble using the 110-115% number. China's 96.3% is way outside both parameters, should be very safe. But instead of saying the American economy could be in trouble, it actually said China's economy was in trouble!

Then look at the last paragraph, Japan's number was 229.6%, UK was 103.4%, all above China with Japan's 229.6% busting both sets of parameters. But nothing was mentioned about Japan's economy in trouble.

And not to forget, China has a national reserve of more than US$3 trillion, possibly even more. And the US has a national debt of more than US$38 trillion and very happy and very safe and strong. This is the typical way of reporting lies and distorted truth about China to imply that ,... China is collapsing, NOT the USA. Very soon, in less than 5 years, the American and European economies are going to collapse one by one.