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# State of the Union 2011: US risks losing its global supremacy, Barack Obama
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warns
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## The US risks losing its global supremacy and must "win the future by out-
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innovating, out-educating and outbuilding the rest of the world," President
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Barack Obama told Americans on Tuesday night.
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[![Alex Spillius][1]][2]
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By [Alex Spillius][3], Washington 6:31PM GMT 25 Jan 2011
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[Follow Alex Spillius on Twitter][4]
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[Comments][5]
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The US president used his State of the Union speech to promise to rein in a
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growing debt that is deeply alarming to voters.
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[Mr Obama][6] said the economy is growing but more needs to be done, calling
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for a job-creating "Sputnik moment" fed by new spending in research and
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education.
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He outlined a plan "to win the future by out-innovating, out-educating and
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outbuilding the rest of the world", while "reforming our government so that
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it's leaner and smarter for the 21st century".
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Mt Obama said: "The most important contest we face today is not between
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Democrats and Republicans. It's America's contest with competitors across the
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globe for the jobs and industries of our time."
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With unemployment stuck at 9.4 per cent and the likes of China, India and
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Brazil surging in the global economy, Mr Obama addressed the insecurity about
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the future that many Americans feel.
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## Related Articles
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* [New face of Tea Party emerges as Palin's star wanes][7]
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26 Jan 2011
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* [US Defence Secretary faults Congress for weakening military][8]
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27 Jan 2011
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* [State of the Union 2011: key challenges][9]
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26 Jan 2011
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* [State of the Union 2011: factbox][10]
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25 Jan 2011
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* [State of the Union 2011: guest list includes Christina Taylor Green's
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parents][11]
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25 Jan 2011
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* [State of the Union: as it happened][12]
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26 Jan 2011
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The national ego has been bruised by the fact that Chinese credit is keeping
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the US solvent, and Mr Obama referred directly to China's superiority in the
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clean energy and wind turbine market as a way of encouraging Republicans to
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support central funding for industrial initiatives.
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The State of the Union, which draws a television audience of more than 45
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million, comes as Mr Obama begins the second half of his four-year term facing
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the awkward reality of sharing power with the Republicans, who now control the
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House of Representatives after a landslide victory in November's midterm
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elections.
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On the eve of the speech Republican leaders made it clear that winning their
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support for any increase in government spending would be difficult.
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The party on Tuesday presented a symbolic resolution to return spending to
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levels before Mr Obama came into office.
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Eric Cantor, the House Majority Leader, said: "Americans want more jobs and
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less spending that will just saddle their children with debt."
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Tuesday night's atmosphere in the House chamber was more sober and civil than
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in recent years. It is less than three weeks since an assassination attempt in
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Tucson, Arizona on Democratic Representative Gabrielle Giffords, who is
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recovering after being shot in the head during a one-man rampage that left six
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dead.
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Among those who were invited to sit with Michelle Obama, the first lady, at
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the president's speech are be the family of a nine-year-old girl who was
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killed, an aide to Ms Giffords who rushed to help her at the shooting and
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trauma surgeons who have treated the wounded representative.
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In an attempt at unity following an attack on one of their own, dozens of
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Democrats and Republicans plan to sit together during the president's speech,
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though some have dismissed that idea as superficial.
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The focus on tone follows a fractious occasion last year. When Mr Obama
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rebuked a Supreme Court decision in his State of the Union speech Justice
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Samuel Alito mouthed back from the audience, "not true". He will this year be
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at an engagement in Hawaii, though six of the court's nine justices are due to
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attend.
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## [Barack Obama][18]
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* ### [News »][19]
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* ### [World News »][20]
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* ### [North America »][21]
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* ### [USA »][22]
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* ### [Alex Spillius »][2]
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In news
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[![US President Barack Obama's state visit to Britain: day two in
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pictures][23] ][24]
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### [Obamas visit Britain: day two][24]
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[![US President Barack Obama's state visit to Britain: security and
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protests][25] ][26]
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### [Obama: security and protests][26]
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[![Queen Elizabeth II and US President Barack Obama during a State Banquet in
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Buckingham Palace,][27] ][28]
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### [Obamas visit Britain: day one][28]
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[![][29] ][30]
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### [Obama honours 'special relationship' in toast to the Queen][30]
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[![Barack Obama UK visit: trip well received in US media: US President Barack
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Obama high-fives with British Prime Minister David Cameron as they play table
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tennis ][31] ][32]
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### [Obama and Cameron team up for ping pong doubles][32]
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