Tournament: Woodward | Round: 1 | Opponent: Greenhill MW | Judge: Tracy McFarland
T Economic Engagement
Interpretation – economic engagement offers tangible trade and financial benefits – distinct from political engagement.
Haass 00 – Richard Haass and Meghan O’Sullivan, Senior Fellows in the Brookings Institution Foreign Policy Studies Program, Honey and Vinegar: Incentives, Sanctions, and Foreign Policy, p. 5-6
Architects of engagement strategies have a wide variety of incentives from which to choose.
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a framework to guide the use of engagement strategies in the upcoming decades.
Knowledge engagement is distinct from economic engagement
Raval and Subramaniam 2011
Dinkar AND Bala, retired professors at Morgan State University and recipients of the Iva Jones Medallion, “US-India partnership can bring poor into knowledge pool,” http://www.rediff.com/money/slide-show/slide-show-1-column-us-india-partnership-can-bring-poor-into-knowledge-pool/20111122.htm#1
The Knowledge Engagement Strategy is to employ US knowledge instruments, system know-how
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knowledge economy progresses and global competition for skilled and knowledgeable human capital intensifies.
Violation – the aff doesn’t increase economic engagement they simply give information.
Voter for predictable limits – the aff blurs the line between economic engagement and all other forms of international interactions exploding limits and makes debate impossible.
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We affirm all of the 1ac but reject their pre-emption logic
The affirmative’s logic of preemption on the Cooperation advantage is violent – it replicates the organizing principle of the global war on terror – turns the case.
- Burnout Theory is False
- Disease causes extinction—their defense doesn’t assume mutation, population size, bio-engineering, or globalization
De Goede 8 Security Dialogue April 2008 vol. 39 no. 2-3
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the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) (2001-2003).
Through its self-conscious deployment of imagination, premediation can be understood to address
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how of the coming havoc. We can only speculate’ (emphasis added).
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Chinese influence in South America is growing and will continue into the future.
Ammachchi 3-3-14, (Narayan, a veteran BPO journalist, writes for Nearshore Americas) Chinese Investment in Latin America Rises to $80 Billion (http://www.nearshoreamericas.com/chinese-investment-latin-america-rises-80-billion/)
Chinese investment in Latin America rose to $80 billion USD in 2013, with
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in 2012, with trade between the two now exceeding $250 billion.
US-Mexican relations spill over – reverse negativity throughout Latin America.
Starr 9 - director of the U.S.-Mexico Network and an associate professor of teaching in the School of International Relations and in Public Diplomacy (Pamela, “Mexico and the United States: A window of opportunity?,” http://www.pacificcouncil.org/document.doc?id=35)//BB
The futures of Mexico and the United States are inevitably and increasingly ¶ intertwined,
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. Symbolic acts can have an outsized positive impact on the bilateral relationship.
Chinese influence in the region key to the global economy and regime stability – preventing US influence is key
Ellis 11
R. Evan, Assistant Professor of National Security Studies in the Center for Hemispheric Defense Studies at the National Defense University.Chinese Soft Power in Latin America, 1st quarter 2011, http://www.ndu.edu/press/lib/images/jfq-60/JFQ60_85-91_Ellis.pdf
Access to Latin American Markets. Latin American markets are becoming increasingly valuable for Chinese
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Area of the Americas) in which the PRC would have been disadvantaged.
CCP goes nuclear
Yee and Storey ‘2 (Herbert Yee, Professor of Politics and International Relations at the Hong - Kong Baptist University and Ian Storey, Lecturer in Defence Studies at Deakin University, The China Threat: Perceptions, Myths and Reality. 2002, Pg 5)
The fourth factor contributing to the perception of a China threat is the fear of
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disintegrating China would also pose a threat to its neighbours and the world.