Tournament: Olathe Northwest | Round: 1 | Opponent: BVSW StoweFolon | Judge: Tim Ellis
Relations between the United States and China are stable now but mutual threat reduction is critical to sustainable cooperation
Gross, 6/4 – Senior Associate at The Pacific Forum, Center for Strategic and International Studies
(David Gross, “Creating a New Model for U.S.-China Relations at the Obama-Xi Summit”, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/donald-gross/creating-a-new-model-for-_b_3383480.html)

US posturing in Latin America causes kills US-China relations
Hilton, 13 – Latin America Correspondent
Isabel, 2/20/2013 “China in Latin America: Hegemonic Challenge?” pg. 1, http://www.peacebuilding.no/var/ezflow_site/storage/original/application/26ff1a0cc3c0b6d5692c8afbc054aad9.pdf, date accessed 7/2/13 IGM

China-U.S. war is on the brink – destroying relations causes major power war
Etzioni, 13 – Professor of International Relations at George Washington University
Amitai, Professor of International Relations at George Washington University. “Preparing to Go to War With China” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/amitai-etzioni/preparing-to-go-to-war-wi_b_3533398.html

Goes nuclear
Wittner 12, – Professor of History emeritus at SUNY/Albany
Dr. Lawrence Wittner 11/10/12, Huffington Post http://www.huffingtonpost.com/lawrence-wittner/nuclear-war-china_b_1116556.html)

Tournament: Olathe Northwest | Round: 4 | Opponent: Free State PrescherLiu | Judge: Tim Quinn
Text: The United States federal government ought not (Insert Plan Text) unless the government of Mexico agrees to a National Action Plan for Trafficking in Persons.

Many Mexican officials have been complicit in Human Trafficking
Department of State 10
(OFFICE TO MONITOR AND COMBAT MEXICAN TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS from the State Department, 6-14-2010, “Trafficking in Persons Report 2010” http://www.state.gov/j/tip/rls/tiprpt/2010/142760.htm Accessed: 7-2-2013 BK)

We have a moral obligation to fight human trafficking – it is the most fundamental assault on humanity
Pryce, U.S. Representative 06
(Deborah, U.S. Representative, May 8, “COMBATING MODERN-DAY SLAVERY” http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=14618Date Accessed: 7-4-2013)

Plan should be used as leverage to ensure Mexico implements a National Action Plan for Trafficking in Persons
Department of State 10
(OFFICE TO MONITOR AND COMBAT TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS from the State Department, 6-14-2010, “Trafficking in Persons Report 2010” http://www.state.gov/j/tip/rls/tiprpt/2010/142760.htm Accessed: 7-4-2013, BK)

Tournament: Olathe Northwest | Round: 1 | Opponent: BVSW StoweFolon | Judge: Tim Ellis
The 1AC’s portrayal of engagement and expansion of markets as an neutral good ignore its ontological construction of nature as a standing-reserve, which makes humans “outsiders” when interpreted as a potential threat to the system
Joronen, 2011(Mikko, Department of Geography, University of Turku, Finland, September 2011. Dwelling in the Sites of Finitude: Resisting the Violence of the Metaphysical Globe, accessed through EBSCO)

Reduction of our being to standing reserve destroys our value to life and makes entire populations disposable which is the root cause of endless wars and genocides
Kouros, 97 Yale Law Graduate, George, Become What You Are, p. 26

And, the alternative is to reject the affirmative’s calculative thinking on being in favor of meditative dwelling – the aff’s strategic interventionism fails to challenge the ontology of domination
Swazo 02Norman k., “Worth Order and Crisis Theory: Heideggerian Reflections, 72-4

Tournament: Olathe Northwest | Round: 1 | Opponent: BVSW StoweFolon | Judge: Tim Ellis
Interpretation – Economic engagement requires a Quid Pro Quo – the topic demands the plan must expand economic ties with an adversary to directly change target behavior
Kahler and Kastner, 06
(Miles, Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies at University of California, San Diego, and Scott, Department of Government and Politics at University of Maryland, “STRATEGIC USES OF ECONOMIC INTERDEPENDENCE: ENGAGEMENT POLICIES IN SOUTH KOREA, SINGAPORE, AND TAIWAN”, Journal of Peace Research) 

Violation – the affirmative participates in unconditional engagement with Cuba, Venezuela, or Mexico without requiring a behavioral or policy change in the target state – this is defined as economic appeasement, not economic engagement
Mastanduno, 03
(Michael, Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Nelson A. Rockefeller Professor of Government, B.A., Economics and Political Science, and Ph.D., Political Science, Princeton University, “The Strategy of Economic Engagement: Theory and Practice,” Economic Interdependence and International Conflict: New Perspectives on an Enduring Debate)