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This article presents archival materials relating to efforts to collect funds to pay the national debt after the Boxer Rebellion. The documents included data from 1910 during the first and second year of Xuantong era. Under the auspices of Qing government, patriotic businessmen in the Tianjin Chamber of Commerce floated bonds and called for early repayment of the indemnity from merchants in the other provinces. Transcribed in this article are documents from the Yunnan Chamber of Commerce that relate to these bonds, information about government support, and the operations of this collection effort. They reflect business people’s shared concerns for the country as well as their self-reliance and patriotism.

The article focuses on a television sketch on October 16, 2013 on the television program "Jimmy Kimmel Live" in which a child suggested that to solve its debt moment the U.S. should kill everyone in China, and mentions China is demanding the American Broadcasting Co. (ABC) provide a sincere apology despite ABC having issued two public apologies.