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1AC Cuba Embargo---China and Science DiplomacyTournament: Dexter | Round: 1 | Opponent: HH Dow | Judge: Peter Battey 1ACContention ~231 InherencyAn embargo prevents trade with Cuba—any exceptions are rare and negligibleThe Economist Jun 20 2013 The outside world matters, too. The tempo of reform has increased since Hugo PLANThe United States federal government should through all necessary means repeal all governmental economic restrictions and/or sanctions against CubaAdvantage ~231 ChinaCuban communication technology is woefully behind the rest of the worldPress Jan 2011 (Larry Press, Professor at California State University, "The State of the Internet in Cuba", CSUDH.edu, January 2011, http://som.csudh.edu/fac/lpress/cuba/chapters/lpdraft2.docx) Prior to 1995, Cuba was among the leaders in Caribbean information and communication Chinese telecom companies are expanding into CubaHernandez 13 (Jennifer Hernandez, Research Assistant at the Institute for Cuban 26 Cuban-American Studies, University of Miami, "Chinese Technology Companies in Cuba" from Focus On Cuba, Issue 186, Miami.edu, March 13, 2013, ctp.iccas.miami.edu/FOCUS_Web/Issue186.htm) In recent years, Chinese technology enterprises have had a more open presence in Cuba Cuba is central to China’s intelligence strategy, which challenges US cybersecurityWesterman January 16 2012 (Toby Westerman, publishes International News Analysis — Today. "The Dragon’s Eyes Are on Us" January 16, 2012. http://www.traditioninaction.org/HotTopics/i99ht_035_Espionage.html) China’s intelligence operations are the "core arena" for achieving the superpower status that Chinese involvement in Cuban telecommunications threatens a cyber-attack which could escalate to all-out cyber warFrye Oct 8 2012 (Selena Frye, Senior Editor with a background in technical writing, editing, and research at TechRepublic. "Is Huawei a threat to U.S. national security?" October 8, 2012, http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/it-security/is-huawei-a-threat-to-us-national-security/) Telecommunications giant Huawei’s rapid expansion has prompted fears in the U.S. national Sino-U.S. cyberwar escalates to nuclear warTilford 12 (Robert Tilford, Graduate US Army Airborne School, Ft. Benning, Georgia, Author: "Digital Espionage are you at risk" and "Social Networking sites and the military", The Examiner, "Cyber attackers could shut down the electric grid for the entire east coast", 2012, http://www.examiner.com/article/cyber-attackers-could-easily-shut-down-the-electric-grid-for-the-entire-east-coa) To make matters worse a cyber attack that can take out a civilian power grid, for example could Economic Engagement with Cuba allows U.S. control of the market instead of ChinaDevereux and Schmidt Jan 26, 2011 (Charlie Devereux, Economy and Government reporter for Bloomberg News, and Blake Schmidt, reporter for Bloomberg News, "Chavez Beats AT26T to Cuban Telecom `Gold Mine’ as Dispute on Pricing Bites", January 26 2011, http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-01-26/chavez-beats-at-t-to-cuba-telecom-market-as-price-dispute-bites.html) U.S. companies had been backing a separate venture by Miami-based Advantage ~232 Science DiplomacyWe need to remove barriers to science cooperation – Status quo doesn’t solveJohnson August 2012 ~Stephen Johnson, CSIS senior fellow and director of the Americas Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies "U.S.-Cuba Academic and Science-Based Exchanges", August 2012, http://csis.org/files/publication/120821_Johnson_U.S.-CubaExchanges_Web.pdf~~ Since the early days of official U.S. public diplomacy at the outset
Science cooperation allows the US and Cuba to cooperate on biotechnologyDalton 9 (Rex Dalton, Science Journalist for International weekly journal of science, Nature, July 22nd 2009, http://www.nature.com/news/2009/090722/full/460447a.html) A drive to increase scientific exchange between the United States and Cuba is off to Biotechnology advancement is key to avoid otherwise inevitable food shortagesAhmad 12 (Parvaiz Ahmad, Professor in the department of botany, University of Kashmir, India, "Biotechnology as an Aid for Crop Improvement to Overcome Food Shortage", 2012, http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.10072F978-94-007-4116-4_9) World’s population has crossed 6.5 billion with majority of human beings living in Cuba key: Cuban agricultural biotech is uniquely good – best technology and zero corporate interferenceGlobal Research News 12 – center for research on globalization. (GRN, "The Achievements of Cuba’s "Ecological Agriculture"", 12/26/2012, http://www.globalresearch.ca/the-achievements-of-cubas-ecological-agriculture/5316868) All over the world, and especially in Latin America, the island’s agroecological production Food shortage and famine causes extinctionPlumb 8 (George Plumb, Environmental Activist, "Was Malthus just off a few decades?" Times Argus, May 182008, http://www.timesargus.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080518/FEATURES05/805180310/1014/FEATURES05) Once again the world’s food situation is bleak. According to the Food and Agriculture We have a moral obligation to eliminate starvationWatson, ’77 (Richard, professor of philosophy at the University of Washington (St. Louis), World Hunger and Moral Obligation, p. 118-9) These arguments are morally spurious. That food sufficient for well-nourished survival is Contention ~232 SolvencySmall changes aren’t enough – only economic engagement will solveHinderdael 11 ~Klaas Hinderdael, M.A. candidate at SAIS Bologna Center, concentrating in American Foreign Policy and Energy, Resources, and Environment, Breaking the Logjam: Obama’s Cuba Policy and a Guideline for Improved Leadership, by http://bcjournal.org/volume-14/breaking-the-logjam.html?printerFriendly=true~~ As a result of the administration’s hesitancy to drastically shift its Cuba policy, Abraham ====Economic Engagement solves science cooperation between the US and Cuba.==== They are next-door neighbors, sharing all the amenities and challenges of the ====Only through economic engagement can we guarantee US control of telecommunications, preventing Chinese encroachment==== Dr. Adrian Hearn, research fellow at the School of Social and Political Science at the University of Sydney and author of many books, "Cuba and China: Lessons and Opportunities for the United States", Commissioned report for the CubaInfo Series, The Cuban Research Institute, Florida International University, June 2009, http://cri.fiu.edu/research/commissioned-reports/cuba-china-hearn.pdf By conventional rankings China is Cuba’s second largest trading partner and Cuba is China’s 10th ====D. The proximate nature of the impacts requires the US to cooperate with Cuba.==== Urgent, Shared Environmental Problems The most urgent environmental problems requiring bilateral action are broadly US is keyDr. Adrian Hearn, research fellow at the School of Social and Political Science at the University of Sydney and author of many books, "Cuba and China: Lessons and Opportunities for the United States", Commissioned report for the CubaInfo Series, The Cuban Research Institute, Florida International University, June 2009, http://cri.fiu.edu/research/commissioned-reports/cuba-china-hearn.pdf While some analysts identify state leadership in developing countries as an integral and valuable component Cubans are calling for the planArturo Lopez-Levy, Lecturer and PhD Candidate at the Josef Korbel School of International Studies at the University of Denver, is a research associate of the Institute for Study of Isreal in the Middle East, received the Leonard Marks Essay Award of the American Academy of Diplomacy in 2005, "Change in Post-Fidel Cuba: Political Liberalization, Economic Reform and Lesson for US Policy", New America Foundation, May 2011, http://newamerica.net/sites/newamerica.net/files/policydocs/naf_all_cuba_reform_final.pdf In the last four years, the implementation of reforms has been slow, but Economic Engagement would enable a peaceful transition to democracy.Perez, September/21/10, professor of history 26 director of the Institute for the Study of the Americas at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2010 (Louis, "Want change in Cuba? End US embargo," CNN, September 21, Online: http://www.cnn.com/2010/OPINION/09/20/perez.cuba.embargo/index.html) But if the administration really wanted to do something in the national interest, it ====Economic engagement solves democratic stability ==== The United States’ embargo against Cuba has failed to fulfill its purpose even half a | 10/31/13 |
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