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"China's demand for Treasuries has increased over the past year, but it hasn't increased at anything like the pace of the Treasury's sale of new Treasury bonds," said Brad W. Setser, a specialist in Chinese financial flows at the Council on Foreign Relations.
"The political support for investments beyond U.S. Treasuries has increased significantly over the last couple of years and that has encouraged Chinese investors to look at real estate in big, stable markets like New York or other big cities," said Thilo Hanemann, a research director the Rhodium Group, a firm that analyzes global business and economic trends.
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