Tournament: Coppell | Round: 1 | Opponent: Law Magnet GM | Judge: Elizabeth Dean

1NC

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Interpretation – Economic engagement involves government-to-government interaction—

Haass and O’Sullivan, formerly a senior aide to President George Bush and is Vice President and Director of Foreign Policy Studies at the Brookings Institution, Washington DC, Meghan, Fellow with the Foreign Policy Studies Program at the Brookings Institution 00 
(Richard, , "Terms of Engagement: Alternatives to Punitive Policies," Summer 2000, http://www.brookings.edu/~~/media/research/files/articles/2000/6/summer20haass/2000survival.pdf)

Architects of engagement strategies can choose from a wide variety of incentives. Economic engagement
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are just some of the possible incentives used in the form of  engagement.

Violation – The Affirmative only increases sugar trade but that is not gov to gov engage

Prefer our Interpretation

Topicality is a voting issue for competitive equity

Predictable Limits – forcing the aff to defend solvency evidence which specifies both an incentive and behavior key to check infinite amount of economic interaction

Education – the interp is key to topic specific education and actually reflects how US government engages with foreign nations

Predictable Ground- all of our links are based off of US engaging Cuba not what they do to the US companies, means they can just spike out of our disad and kritik links

Neolib

Unique link - Lift of the embargo means immediate integration into global neoliberal markets – proves the permutation can’t work and increases risk of food insecurity in Cuba

Gonzalez, Teaches environmental law fundamental, international environmental law, and international trade law at the University of Seattle ’04
(Carmen, , "Trade Liberalization, Food Security, and the Environment: The Neoliberal Threat to Sustainable Rural Development" Transnational Law Journal and Contemporary Problems Fall 2004  Academic One File accessed tm 9/9)
Cuba is symbolically important because it demonstrates that there is an alternative to the dominant
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and ecological sustainability, and to explore alternative strategies for sustainable rural development.

Impact – continued spread of neoliberalism leads to planetary collapse

Darder, Distinguished Professor of Education, University of Illinois,  2010
(Professor Antonia Darder, Distinguished Professor of Education, University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign, "Preface" in Critical Pedagogy, Ecoliteracy, 26 Planetary Crisis: The Ecopedagogy Movement by Richard V. Kahn, 2010, pp. x-xiii) GENDER MODIFIED  
It is fitting to begin my words about Richard Kahn’s Critical Pedagogy, Ecoliteracy,
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the well-being of all species with whom we walk the earth. 

C Alternative — As an intellectual your rejection of capitalism has emancipatory results relentless criticism allows capitalism to be challenged.

Kovel Professor of Social Studies at Bard 2002
(Joel, , The Enemy of Nature, p224)
Relentless criticism can delegitimate the system and release people into struggle. And as struggle
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of the masses of people. There is no greater responsibility for intellectuals.

1nc – Tourism CP

Text The USFG should never place the embargo on Cuba except for travel restrictions. WE’ll clarify.

Observation One – solves for the entirety of the case by lifting all other portions of the embargo

Observation Two – avoids the links to the tourism and health care disads

Tourism DA

Lifting the embargo would increase Carbbean tourism at least 10

Romeu, senior economist at IMF, ’08
(Rafael, IMF Working Paper, "Vacation Over: Implications for the Caribbean of Opening U.S.-Cuba Tourism," July, http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/wp/2008/wp08162.pdf, accessed on 8/19/13, BT)
Imposing trade barriers raises costs and distorts the flow of commerce. Using tourist-
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be able to ¶ outbid other visitors for greater tourism quality and quantities.

Sex tourism creates a demand, which increases sex and human trafficking.

OMCTP 07
(The Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons, US Department of State, "DEMAND: A Comparative examination of Sex tourism And¶ trafficking in Jamaica, Japan, the Netherlands, ¶ and the United States", http://sharedhope.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/DEMAND.pdf, accessed on 8/23/13, BT)
Sex tourism is the travel by buyers of sexual services for the purpose of procuring
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women ¶ and children, who are brought into sexual slavery and exploitation.

Human trafficking is the ultimate form of evil and must be destroyed

Keefer, retired US Army Colonel and Consultant at Booze Allen Hamilton, ’6
(Colonel Sandra, "Human Trafficking and the Impact on National Security for the United States", http://www.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/a448573.pdf, accessed on 8/23/13, BT)
Countries need also to be required to implement tougher security and border controls to detect
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be erased from the face of the earth. Nothing less will suffice.

Counter Factuals Bad

Resolutional statement need only be shown true at ANY point in time. Aff over-exploit this relative to conventional fiat, making the round unfair.

Voight ’95
Phillip Voight is Director of Forensics and Visiting Instructor at Gustavus Adolphus College – "Thinking in Time: The Importance of Temporal Location in Argument" – vol 16 –
CONTEMPORARY ARGUMENTATION AND DEBATE – available at: http://cedadebate.org/CAD/index.php/CAD/article/viewFile/199/184
The most obvious difference between counter-factual affirmatives and their traditional counterparts is their
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discussion of unanticipated consequences that might spring from their counter-factual examples.

And, Affs will over-exploit this bias. They’ll dodge any item they don’t want to debate by fiating before it existed.

Voight ’95
Phillip Voight is Director of Forensics and Visiting Instructor at Gustavus Adolphus College – "Thinking in Time: The Importance of Temporal Location in Argument" – vol 16 –
CONTEMPORARY ARGUMENTATION AND DEBATE – available at: http://cedadebate.org/CAD/index.php/CAD/article/viewFile/199/184
Beyond the difficulties posed by the unpredictability of affirmative temporal choices, negative teams also
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technology that they are uncomfortable with. Negative teams have no theoretical recourse.

Counterfactuals fail—can’t disprove the reasoning and you can’t test the idea

Washington Post, July 30, 2007
(Shankar Vedantam, department of human behavior, "Bush and Counterfactual Confidence, accessed 4/30/11 http://www.google.com/url?sa=t26source=web26cd=1026ved=0CGEQFjAJ26url=http3A2F2Fwww.uky.edu2FAS2FPoliSci2FPeffley2Fpdf2FVendantam2520WP2520072520Bush2520and2520Counterfactual2520Confidence.pdf26rct=j26q=counterfactual20iraq20war26ei=spu8TfD3IIeXtwfW_ajCBQ26usg=AFQjCNFRJ60-UjFZEtLcFa0rvghfZtToZQ26sig2=AN0TsJS4A6PXNG1NoVqttA26cad=rja)

But what is dangerous about counterfactuals is that while they may seem reasonable, they
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the control groups are all being run in the imaginations of the analysts."
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This destroys decisionmaking—falsifiable data and tested hypothesis are key to legal decisionmaking

Kirk Heilbrun, Law-Psychology Program, Department of Clinical and Health Psychology, Allegheny University of the Health Sciences, 1997, "Prediction Versus Management Models Relevant to Risk Assessment: The Importance of Legal Decision-Making Context," Law and Human Behavior, Vol. 21, No. 4, 

In theory, at least, the quality of the information provided to a decision
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and whether that improvement would be "enough" in the present situation.

Sugar

Castro nationalizes sugar inevitable- history proves, he went to Washington to help improve the economy after Bautista, but that failed so he went to the Soviets and that fruits the seeds of the communist turn

The sugar sector is nationalized and funds generated or lost affect government perception

Valladares, Institute for War 26 Peace, ’12 (Alejandro, "Foreign Money for Cuban Sugar Industry", December 13, 2012, http://iwpr.net/report-news/foreign-money-cuban-sugar-industry, accessed 11/7/13, JF)
Two foreign-funded projects designed to revive sugar production in Cuba are the first
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the Cuban state between 1970 and 1990 are not subject to these restrictions. 

Turn –Midwest econ

A – Plan kills it and the domestic ethanol sector.

Specht ’12
(Jonathan – Legal Advisor, Pearlmaker Holsteins, Inc. B.A., Louisiana State University, 2009; J.D.,¶ Washington University in St. Louis 2012. "Raising Cane: Cuban Sugarcane Ethanol’s Economic and Environmental Effects on the United States" – ExpressO – http://environs.law.ucdavis.edu/issues/36/2/specht.pdf)

Absent a scenario in which the RFS was raised at the same time as U
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espoused, especially¶ after the policy-makers had supported the industry. 

B – That key to the US economy.

Dinneen ’13
Bob Dinneen, President and CEO, Renewable Fuels Association¶ House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Energy and Power Hearing;¶ "Overview of the Renewable Fuel Standard: Stakeholder Perspectives." (Part One); Congressional Documents and Publications – July 23, 2013 – lexis
It is important to remember that a central objective in developing a vibrant and robust
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paid 247.9 billion in federal, state and local taxes.

C - Avoiding US economic decline key to global economy.

BW ’13
(internally quoting Dr. Venkatesh Bala, chief economist at The Cambridge Group, a part of Nielsen – Business Wire – February 5, 2013 – lexis)
"North America is slowly but steadily heading in the right direction," said Dr
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will serve as the critical engine of improved global economic activity in 2013."

D - Global economic decline causes nuclear war

Auslin ’9 
(Michael, Resident Scholar – American Enterprise Institute, and Desmond Lachman – Resident Fellow – American Enterprise Institute, "The Global Economy Unravels", Forbes, 3-6, http://www.aei.org/article/100187)
What do these trends mean in the short and medium term? The Great Depression
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may be a series of small explosions that coalesce into a big bang.

Tournament: Coppell | Round: 4 | Opponent: Grapevine US | Judge: 

Speech 1NC

T State

Interpretation – Economic engagement involves government-to-government interaction—

Haass and O’Sullivan, formerly a senior aide to President George Bush and is Vice President and Director of Foreign Policy Studies at the Brookings Institution, Washington DC, Meghan, Fellow with the Foreign Policy Studies Program at the Brookings Institution 00 
(Richard, , "Terms of Engagement: Alternatives to Punitive Policies," Summer 2000, http://www.brookings.edu/~~/media/research/files/articles/2000/6/summer20haass/2000survival.pdf)

Architects of engagement strategies can choose from a wide variety of incentives. Economic engagement
AND
are just some of the possible incentives used in the form of  engagement.

Violation – The Affirmative only engages with non government bodies not the government

Prefer our Interpretation

 a. Provides best context for the resolution, provides a clear brightline on what is and isn’t topical

Topicality is a voting issue for competitive equity

Limits – forcing the aff to defend solvency evidence which specifies both an incentive and behavior key to check infinite amount of economic interaction

Education – the interp is key to topic specific education and actually reflects how US government engages with foreign nations

Coloniality K

====Expanding globalization to Cuba is part of an imperial strategy to displace revolutionary potential in Cuba. The outcome of the expansion of globalization is environmental destruction and inequality.====
Bliss 2005
(Dr. Susan Bliss: Director of Global Education, 7/5/2005, "Sustainability of Modern Cuba’s post revolution globalisation process",)

Globalisation is not a new phenomenon in Cuba, evolving from the 16th century with
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are ’free and fair’, equitably structured and immune from corporate power.

Coloniality generates a permanent state of exception that is the root cause of the death ethics of war and underwrites a hellish existence where death, murder, war, rape, and racism are ordinary

Maldonado-Torres 08
(Nelson Maldonado-Torres, associate professor of comparative literature at Rutgers, 2008, "Against War: Views from the Underside of Modernity, p. 217-221)

Dussel, Quijano, and Wynter lead us to the understanding that what happened in
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such a world, ontology collapses into a Manicheanism, as Fanon suggested." 

Our alternative is to reject the affirmative – when confronted with colonial projects the only ethical response is radical negativity. We are compelled to delink from modernity.

Mignolo 09 
~Walter D. Mignolo, Epistemic Disobedience, Independent Thought and Decolonial Freedom, Theory and Culture 2009, published 2009~

ONCE UPON a time scholarsassumed that the knowing subject in the disciplines is transparent,
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who take ’originality’ as the ultimate criterion for the final judgment.1

The question of this debate is how best to challenge colonial institutions and foreground the lives of marginalized populations – this is an ethical imperative.

Mignolo 2009
(Walter Mignolo, 2009, Epistemic Disobedience, Independent thought, and deconlonial freedom, http://waltermignolo.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/epistemicdisobedience-2.pdf, Walter Mignolo is a semiotician and Professor at Duke Univeristy, who has published extensively on semiotics and literary theory, and worked on different aspect of the modern and colonial world, exploring concepts such as global coloniality, the geopolitics of knowledge, transmodernity, border thinking, and pluriversality)

De-colonial thinking presupposes de-linking (epistemically and politically) from the
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wealth through the money invested by consumers who buy health-promoting technology. 

Cyberwar

Cyber threats are hype—Pentagon and private networks are adequately protected

Cohen 26 Zenko, 2012, Foreign Affairs, March-April, ~Fellow at the Century Foundation; Fellow in the Center for Preventive Action at the Council on Foreign Relations; Michael; Micah~, p. 79+academic onefile
A more recent bogeyman in national security debates is the threat of so-called
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11, and most can be offset by commonsense prevention and mitigation efforts. 

Unique link — Engagement is zero-sum – China’s power depends on America’s neglect. The plan reverses the trend, undercutting China’s influence in the region

Kreps ’13 (Sarah E. Kreps 26 Gustavo A. Flores-Macías are Assistant Professors of Government at Cornell University, "No Strings Attached? Evaluating China’s Trade Relations Abroad," May 17, 2013, http://thediplomat.com/china-power/no-strings-attached-evaluating-chinas-trade-relations-abroad/)

To be sure, China may not have a purposeful plan to bring their trade
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its trade and diplomatic agenda as an important means of projecting influence abroad.

1. China’s influence in Latin America is key to their soft power

Malik, 06 – PhD in International Relations (Mohan, "China’s Growing Involvement in Latin America," 6/12, http://uyghuramerican.org/old/articles/300/1/info@uyghuramerican.org)

China’s forays into Latin America are part of its grand strategy to acquire "comprehensive
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trade agreements), and mutual security pacts, intelligence cooperation and arms sales. 

2. Chinese international influence is an existential impact – it controls every scenario for extinction

Zhang 2012 (Prof of Diplomacy and IR at the Geneva School of Diplomacy. "The Rise of China’s Political Softpower" 9/4/12 http://www.china.org.cn/opinion/2012-09/04/content_26421330.htm)

As China plays an increasingly significant role in the world, its soft power must
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As the China model improves, it will continue to surprise the world.

Transition

The Cuban healthcare system is strong now – it’s better than the US and offers alternative models of medicine and research.

Badore ’13 (Margaret, "What we can learn from Cuba’s health care system," Jun 27 2013,
http://www.mnn.com/health/fitness-well-being/stories/what-we-can-learn-from-cubas-health-care-system)
 The correlation between low income and poor health has been established in many countries
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Cuba’s example offers a wealth of potential new treatments and approaches to explore. 

Squo solves transition

Bilbao, executive director of the CSG in Washington D.C, 13
(Tomas, "What Cuba’s Reforms Tell Us About the Country’s Leadership", January 14, http://journal.georgetown.edu/2013/01/14/what-cubas-reforms-tell-us-about-the-countrys-leadership-by-tomas-bilbao/, accessed on 1/10/14, BT)
("What Cuba’s Reforms Tell Us About the Country’s Leadership", January 14, 2013, http://journal.georgetown.edu/2013/01/14/what-cubas-reforms-tell-us-about-the-countrys-leadership-by-tomas-bilbao/)
I. Cuban Leadership Seeks Legitimacy by Responding to Popular Demands Cuba’s reforms indicate that
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and social inequity. These inherent contradictions may reveal divergence within the regime. 

No disease escalation—empirically proven that countries effectively cooperate to prevent spread

Walt, Professor of International Affairs, Harvard University, 2009
Stephen M., Foreign Policy, "What swine flu tells us about global cooperation," April 30, http://walt.foreignpolicy.com/category/topic/bird_flu, last accessed 12.31.10 ~RG~
Third, public health is a highly professionalized and comparatively de-politicized field,
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. Libertarian neo-isolationists and neoconservative institution-bashers should take note.

No risk of disease spread—new WHO regulations prevent escalation, widespread infection Stephenson, PhD, member of the American Medical Association, 2005

Joan, Journal of American Medical Association, "Curbing Global Disease Spread," June 15, http://jama.ama-assn.org.ezproxy.lib.utexas.edu/content/293/23/2850.1, last accessed 12.31.10 ~RG~
New rules intended to help prevent the spread of deadly infectious diseases such as avian
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help countries decide whether other incidents are public health events of global concern.

Solvncy

Their Chinese threat discourse creates a divide, pitting the benign US against the menacing Chinese, their supposed objectivity relies upon flawed subjective claims that make war more likely

Chengxin Pan, Department of Political Science and International Relations at the Australian National University, 2004
 ("The "China Threat" in American Self-Imagination: The Discursive Construction of Other as Power Politics," Alternatives: Global, Local, Political, Volume 29, Issue 3, June/July, Available Online via Academic Search Premier, p. 305-306)

While U.S. China scholars argue fiercely over "what China precisely is
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that have been overridden and rendered largely invisible by those common positivist assumptions.

Tournament: PESH 2 | Round: 2 | Opponent: St Marks KP | Judge: PJ Martinez

T – Change Dat Behavior

A. Interpretation

1. Engagement is extending incentives to change behavior – it is more than mere interaction

Haass and O’Sullivan  2K
(Richard N. Haass, Director of Foreign Policy Studies at the Brookings Institution, and Meghan L. O’Sullivan, Fellow in the Foreign Policy Studies Program at the Brookings Institution, vol. 42, no. 2, Summer 2000, pp. 113–35, http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1093/survival/42.2.113~~23preview)

The term ’engagement’ was popularised in the early 1980s amid controversy  about the Reagan
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to shape the behaviour of countries with which the US has important  disagreements.

2. Toward

 in the direction of====
Merriam Webster 13  
(Marriam Webster Dictionary, 2013, http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/toward, Accessed July 17, 2013, JD)

to•ward¶ preposition \?t?-?rd(z), ?to?(-?
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the partial payment of proceeds go toward the establishment of a scholarship

B. Violation – aff just unilaterally opens up our southern border which allows immigration from anywhere and doesn’t uniquely engage Mexico

C. Standards —

Limits – forcing the aff to defend solvency evidence which specifies both an incentive and behavior key to check infinite amount of economic interaction

Education – the interp is key to topic specific education and actually reflects how US government engages with foreign nations

Ground – allowing the aff destroys core generics based off interaction with Mexico – kills clash

Extra Topicality – they can claim advantages off of non-Mexican citizens – impossible to predict

T – Trade

A. Interpretation –

• • 1. Economic engagement requires a structural linkage
       Mastanduno—citing Hirschman— 1
       (Michael Mastanduno, Professor of Government at Dartmouth, "Economic Engagement Strategies: Theory and Practice"
       June 2001, Project Muse) FS
       The basic causal logic of economic engagement, and the emphasis on domestic¶ politics
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       runs from economic interdependence through domestic political change to¶ foreign policy accommodation.

2. This linkage must be the promotion of trade
Karakasis 8
(Vasileos Karakasis, Masters in International Relations at Instanbul Bilgi University, "The Impact of Europeanization on Greece’s Engagement Strategy towards Turkey", http://www.academia.edu/667112/The_Impact_of_Europeanization_on_Greeces_Engagement_Strategy_towards_Turkey) FS
This policy is accompanied by an economic pillar. By economic engagement what can be
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a critical part of the electorate to whom political elites must respond.50 

====B. Violation – the aff increases immigration to the United States, people are distinct from trade ====

C. Standards: 
Predictable Limits: allowing liberal admissions justifies any aff that is remotely related to economic activity, which overlimits the topic
Predictable Ground: key trade, politics and relations DAs 

Coloniality K

Link - the aff’s framing of Mexicans is ethically bankrupt—immigration is seen only as an economic means to an end

Orozco-Mendoza 8
(Elva, doctoral student currently concentrating in political theory at UMass, Borderlands Theory: Producing Border Epistemologies with Gloria¶ Anzaldúa, Thesis submitted to the Faculty of¶ Virginia Polytechnic Institute, 4/24/2008)

Current debates about illegal immigration in the United States still contain, directly or¶
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Americans is further complicated by¶ the border that these two countries share.

Coloniality generates a permanent state of exception that is the root cause of the death ethics of war and underwrites a hellish existence where death, murder, war, rape, and racism are ordinary

Maldonado-Torres 08
(Nelson Maldonado-Torres, associate professor of comparative literature at Rutgers, 2008, "Against War: Views from the Underside of Modernity, p. 217-221)

Dussel, Quijano, and Wynter lead us to the understanding that what happened in
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such a world, ontology collapses into a Man

Tournament: PESH 1 | Round: 2 | Opponent: Cooper MO | Judge: Collin Roark

NEolib k

Link - Economic and physical integration proposed by the Aff  greases the wheels of global capitalism entrenching disparity further

Robinson, Professor of Sociology at the University of Santa Barbara, 2008 
(William I, Latin America and Global Capitalism: A Critical Globalization Perspective, p. 20-1) 

By synchronizing each national economic environment to an integrated global economic environment neoliberalism has served
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the market as the sole organizing power in the economic and social sphere.

Impact – continued spread of neoliberalism leads to planetary collapse

Darder, Distinguished Professor of Education, University of Illinois,  2010
(Professor Antonia Darder, Distinguished Professor of Education, University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign, "Preface" in Critical Pedagogy, Ecoliteracy, 26 Planetary Crisis: The Ecopedagogy Movement by Richard V. Kahn, 2010, pp. x-xiii) GENDER MODIFIED  
It is fitting to begin my words about Richard Kahn’s Critical Pedagogy, Ecoliteracy,
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the well-being of all species with whom we walk the earth. 

C Alternative — As an intellectual your rejection of capitalism has emancipatory results relentless criticism allows capitalism to be challenged.

Kovel Professor of Social Studies at Bard 2002
(Joel, , The Enemy of Nature, p224)
Relentless criticism can delegitimate the system and release people into struggle. And as struggle
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of the masses of people. There is no greater responsibility for intellectuals.

China DA

A. Uniqueness – China presence in region to offset ROC-Latin America relations

Ellis, Assistant Professor of National Security Studies in the Center for Hemispheric Defense Studies at the National Defense University, ’11
(R. Evan, "Chinese Soft Power in Latin America: A Case Study", Joint Force Quarterly, Vol 60. 2011. http://www.ndu.edu/press/chinese-soft-power-latin-america.html)**
Diplomatic Recognition of Taiwan. For the PRC, the government of Taiwan represents an
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and Salvadoran president MaricioFuenes—although all did so prior to assuming office. 

B. Link - Lack of US engagement increases PRC opportunities for investment in energy security

Elisabeth Malkin is a contributing writer for The New York Times based in Mexico City, Karla Zabludovsky contributed reporting from Mexico City, 6-5-2013 ~"Chinese President Makes Bridge-Building Trip to Mexico", The New York Times on the Web, Lexis~

President Xi Jinping of China arrived in Mexico City on Tuesday for a three-
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biggest economy in the world, but that is no longer enough.’’

C. Impact — War in and with Taiwan draws in the US and causes extinction

Hunkovic 9 (Lee J.,  Prof Military Studies @ American Military University. "The Chinese-Taiwanese Conflict – Possible Futures of a Confrontation between China, Taiwan, and the United States of America" 2009, http://www.lamp-method.org/ecommons/hunkovic.pdf)
A war between China, Taiwan and the United States has the potential to escalate
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outcome, therefore, other countries will not be considered in this study.

1nc TPA Good Shell

Unique internal link  —  Political capital key to TPA

Chicago Tribune 12/30/13
http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2013-12-30/opinion/ct-give-obama-tpa-fast-track-trade-edit-1230-jm-20131230_1_trade-deals-trade-promotion-authority-tpa
Federal lawmakers and the president have to make their case with much more gusto than we have seen so far. Congress could OK a Trade Promotion Authority bill in the first few months of 2014. But that won’t happen without leadership on Capitol Hill and, especially, from the White House. Now’s the time.

Link Plan is unpopular

Internal link and impact –failure to get TPA dooms free trade

====Passing TPA would be a crucial signal of revitalized US trade leadership.====
Robert Zoellick 6/14/13 eleventh president of the World Bank, US trade representative 2001-2005 Payoff from the World Trade Agenda Peterson Institute for International Economics