Uh, excuse me, can you check this?

http://money.cnn.com/2017/08/16/investing/china-us-debt-trea...

Do you want me to be more precise? Foreign creditor?

"The Treasury Department has ranked China as the biggest foreign creditor to the U.S. for the overwhelming majority of the past nine years. "

"Biggest foreign creditor" and "biggest creditor" are worlds apart; it's not just about being more precise. More than two thirds of US debt is held domestically.

I think the OP wanted to make clear that domestic creditors far outweigh any foreign one so saying "biggest creditor" was a deceptive statement.

>>Do you want me to be more precise? Foreign creditor?

That's not being more precise. That's something entirely different.

foreign. That sense said just creditor without the 'foreign' bit.