To get an idea of the kind of pressure Barack Obama is under this week, as he heads to South Korea for the G20 summit of leading economies, take a look at a recent video from a group called Citizens Against Government Waste. Easy to find on the web, it is set in a classroom 20 years from now. A Chinese professor asks students "Why do great nations fail?", and charts the decline of the US – which apparently borrowed and spent its way into collapse. "We owned most of their debt," he explains in front of a flag of the People's Republic. "So now they work for us." The classroom laughs.
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