Tournament: Emory | Round: 6 | Opponent: Maine East AL | Judge: Rahul Patel

China’s leading clean tech development now—-it’s zero-sum—-key to Chinese growth, CCP stability, soft power, and warming

McMahon 13 Tamsin is a reporter for the National Post. "How China is going to save the world," 1/27, http://www2.macleans.ca/2013/01/27/business/
China’s ongoing struggles with pollution have been a blight on the country’s international reputation.
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of them related in some way to environmental protection and renewable energy technology.

China’s economic rise prevents CCP instability and lashout —- decline tubes the global economy, US primacy, and Sino relations

Mead 9 Walter Russell Mead, Henry A. Kissinger Senior Fellow in U.S. Foreign Policy at the Council on Foreign Relations, "Only Makes You Stronger," The New Republic, 2/4/9, http://www.tnr.com/story_print.html?id=571cbbb9-2887-4d81-8542-92e83915f5f8
The greatest danger both to U.S.-China relations and to American power
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modernization and change; nobody knows what will happen if the growth stops.

CCP instability causes extinction

Yee and Storey 2 Herbert is a Professor of Politics and IR @ Hong Kong Baptist University, and Ian is a Lecturer in Defence Studies @ Deakin University. "The China Threat: Perceptions, Myths and Reality," p. 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.

Tournament: Ohio Valley | Round: 6 | Opponent: Seaholm GH | Judge: Matt Azimi

Reject the aff as a means to create space for alternatives to neoliberal engagement.

Munck, professor of Globalization and Social Exclusion, 3 (Ronaldo, Department of Sociology, Social Policy 26 Social Work Studies and Globalisation and Social Exclusion Unit, University of Liverpool, "Neoliberalism, necessitarianism and alternatives in Latin America: there is no alternative (TINA)?", Third World Quarterly, Vol 24, No 3, pp 495–511, 2003, http://www-e.uni-magdeburg.de/evans/Journal20Library/Trade20and20Countries/Neoliberalism,20necessitarianism20and20alternatives20in20Latin20America.pdf, ZBurdette)

Taking as its point of departure the position that there are or must be alternatives
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is back in the foreground of thinking and practice around alternative economic theories.
There is no alternative (TINA) was an oft-repeated expression of Margaret
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underline the urgency of developing a credible and viable alternative to its policies.

The plan’s economic rationality prioritizes short term profit over the well-being of environment and human life-makes extinction inevitable

Nhanenge, South Africa development studies masters, 2007
(Jytte, "Ecofeminsm: Towards Integrating The Concerns Of Women, Poor People And Nature Into Development", February, http://uir.unisa.ac.za/bitstream/handle/10500/570/dissertation.pdf?sequence=1, DOA: 7-4-12)

Generation of wealth was an important part of the Scientific Revolution and its modern society
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models, which can support women, Others and nature, are presented.

Tournament: Hooch | Round: Octas | Opponent: Pace LS | Judge: Bearden, Grace, Karthikeya

Congress will ultimately compromise to avert shutdown – GOP divisions make it more likely, not less

Tom Cohen, 9-20-2013, "Congress: will it be a government shutdown or budget compromise?" CNN, http://www.cnn.com/2013/09/19/politics/congress-shutdown-scenarios/index.html?utm_source=feedburner26utm_medium=feed26utm_campaign=Feed3A+rss2Fcnn_allpolitics+(RSS3A+Politics)
There hasn’t been a government shutdown in more than 17 years, since the 28
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changes to provide Boehner and House Republicans with political cover to back it.

The plan would trade off with Congress’s ability to avert the shutdown - GOP has momentum and will, but they need focus

Frank James, 9-13-2013, "Congress Searches For A Shutdown-Free Future," NPR, http://www.npr.org/blogs/itsallpolitics/2013/09/13/221809062/congress-searches-for-a-shutdown-free-future
The only thing found Thursday seemed to be more time for negotiations and vote-
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people. When we have something to report, we’ll let you know."

Shutdown wrecks the economy

Yi Wu, 8-27-2013, "Government Shutdown 2013: Still a Terrible Idea," PolicyMic, http://www.policymic.com/articles/60837/government-shutdown-2013-still-a-terrible-idea
Around a third of House Republicans, many Tea Party-backed, sent a
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to demand cancellation of the entire health care reform enacted a year before.

Global nuclear war

Harris 26 Burrows 9 Mathew, PhD European History @ Cambridge, counselor of the U.S. National Intelligence Council (NIC) and Jennifer, member of the NIC’s Long Range Analysis Unit "Revisiting the Future: Geopolitical Effects of the Financial Crisis" http://www.ciaonet.org/journals/twq/v32i2/f_0016178_13952.pdf
Of course, the report encompasses more than economics and indeed believes the future is
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within and between states in a more dog-eat-dog world.