BEIJING — Following another day of turmoil in world financial markets, Vice President Biden sought to assure China, America’s largest foreign creditor, that its investments in U.S. Treasury securities were safe. “U.S. Treasurys — we’re going to take care of very closely, not merely because China owns 8 percent of them, but because the Americans own 85 percent of them,” Biden told Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao during a Friday afternoon meeting at Zhongnanhai, the main leadership compound in central Beijing. Read full article > >

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