Gyroscopic Investing

According to the data below, China and Japan together have about $2 trillion in United States' economy in term of owning US treasury securities. How about the United States and American companies? How much assets do United States and American companies have in China and Japan?


By the way, what do they mean by "Oil Exporters" and "Caribbean Banking Centers?" Please see the bold nations below.



http://www.treasury.gov/resource-center ... ts/mfh.txt


As of June 2011


China: 1165.5
Japan: 911.0

UK:  349.5
Oil Exporters: 229.6
Brazil: 207.1
Taiwan: 153.4
Caribbean Banking Centers: 140.5
Hong Kong: 118.4
Russia: 109.8
Switzerland: 108.2 

Oil exporters are the Arab oil rich countries and Venezuela which has lots of oil.

Caribbean banking centers are like the Cayman Islands and Bermuda. They launder money and hold billions in assets in their banks. They typically invest in US treasuries. They are like Switzerland, but more for customers in North and South America.