Tournament: Longbeach | Round: 1 | Opponent: Torrey Pines AW | Judge: Daniel Ho
China and Mexico are committed to deepening their economic ties now.
Fox News Latino 6/2/13 (“China's President Wants To Open the Floodgates of Trade with Mexico”, Fox News, June 2 2013, http://latino.foxnews.com/latino/money/2013/06/02/china-president-wants-to-open-floodgates-trade-with-mexico/)

Chinese engagement with Latin America is high and stabilizing – increased US engagement will trade-off with Chinese involvement
Watson 09 Professor of Strategy at National War College Cynthia A. Watson, U.S. Responses to China’s Growing Interests in Latin America: Dawning Recognition of a Changing Hemisphere, “Enter the Dragon? China’s Presence in Latin America”, http://www.wilsoncenter.org/sites/default/files/EnterDragonFinal.pdf

Chinese lead in Latin American economies are vital to maintain their economic growth.
Arnson et al. ‘9 (Cynthia Anderson, Mark Mohr, Riordan Roett, writers for Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, “Enter the Dragon? China’s Presence in Latin America”, http://www.wilsoncenter.org/sites/default/files/EnterDragonFinal.pdf) 

Sustained economic growth prevents social unrest that would collapse the ruling party – that would cause great power war.
Kane 01 Thomas Kane, PhD in Security Studies from the University of Hull and Lawrence Serewicz, Autumn, http://www.carlisle.army.mil/usawc/Parameters/01autumn/Kane.htm

Tournament: Longbeach | Round: 1 | Opponent: Torrey Pines AW | Judge: Daniel Ho
CP Text:
The United States federal government ought to enter into prior, binding consultation with the government of Brazil on whether the United States ought to adopt the mandates of the TBA towards Mexico with the possibility of minor modifications by the Brazilian government.

Energy affairs need to be consulted on- US-Brazil strategic energy dialogue
Langevin 12 (Mark S. Langevin, Ph.D. Associate Adjunct Professor of Government and Politics at the University of Maryland-University College, a Contributing Faculty at Walden University’s Graduate School of Public Policy and Administration) (“Energy and Brazil-United States Relations A Discussion Paper”, Brazil works, Sep 19, 2012, https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B7MqlY1WLL8eZnJUNGxxZlpSQi1KcGRlYUlOeHRRZw/edit?usp=drive_web)

Prior binding consultation key to U.S.-Brazilian relations.

Einaudi, 11—a  Distinguished Visiting  f ellow in the Center for Strategic  r  esearch,  i  nstitute for  n  ational Strategic  Studies, at the  n  ational Defense  University. He is also a Member of  the  a  dvisory Council of the Brazil  i  nstitute at the Woodrow Wilson  i  nternational Center for Scholars. (Luigi, “Brazil and the United  States: The Need for  Strategic Engagement,” March 2011, http://www.ndu.edu/inss/docuploaded/SF2026620Einaudi.pdf)

Co-operation is key to solve amazon deforestation- models and data gathering
Sweig et al 11 (Julia E. Sweig, Nelson and David Rockefeller Senior Fellow for Latin America Studies and Director for Latin America Studies, AND Samuel W. Bodman, and James D. Wolfensohn, Chairmen, Wolfensohn and Company, LLC) (“Global Brazil and U.S.-Brazil Relations” Council on Foreign Relations Task Force Report, July 12, 2011, http://i.cfr.org/content/publications/attachments/Brazil_TFR_66.pdf)

Solves deforestation
Meyer 13 (Peter J. Meyer Analyst in Latin American Affairs for the Congressional Research Service) (“CRS Report for Congress Prepared for Members and Committees of Congress Brazil-U.S. Relations” February 27, 2013, http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/row/RL33456.pdf)

Tournament: Longbeach | Round: 1 | Opponent: Torrey Pines AW | Judge: Daniel Ho
International politics is a masculinized world that diminishes peace by emphasizing power and competition

Tickner 92 (J. Ann., Professor at School of International Relations-USC, “Gender in International Relations: Feminist Perspectives on Achieving Global Security, Engendered Insecurities”, Columbia University Press. Online http://www.ciaonet.org/book/tickner/tickner12.html)

State-based politics is violent and hierarchal
Bookchin 87-Director Emeritus @ the Institute for Social Ecology, From Urbanization to Cities, “Libertarian Municipalism: The New Municipal Agenda,” 1987, http://dwardmac.pitzer.edu/anarchist_archives/bookchin/libmuni.html, Note: Ellipses present in original article, no text deleted 

And, This masculine ideology is the root cause of all proliferation, environmental destruction, domestic violence, and war
Warren and Cady 94 (Karen J, Duane L, feminists and authors, Hypatia, “Feminism and Peace: Seeing connections,” pg 16-17)

AND, our alternative is to reject the affirmative and perform humanity.. We’ll clarify.
Take a chance, won't you? Knock down the fences that divide. Tear apart the walls that imprison. Reach out; freedom lies just on the other side. 

Lee Hall 2005, Lee Hall is the director of animal rights studies at Rutgers University. Has a P.H.D. in Fem studies

And the impacts of the 1AC will continue to happen. Performing humanity is the only way to overcome the impacts.
Bookchin 6-Director Emeritus @ the Institute for Social Ecology Murray, “Society and Ecology,” 2006,http://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/murray-bookchin-society-and-ecology

Tournament: Longbeach | Round: 1 | Opponent: Torrey Pines AW | Judge: Daniel Ho
Obama’s weakened by Syria but still strong enough to win a debt ceiling fight
Garrett, 9/19/13 - National Journal Correspondent-at-Large and Chief White House Correspondent for CBS News (Major, National Journal, “A September to Surrender: Syria and Summers Spell Second-Term Slump” http://www.nationaljournal.com/all-powers/a-september-to-surrender-syria-and-summers-spell-second-term-slump-20130917)

Plan burns capital

Kurtzer et al, 11  (Daniel, US Ambassador, Princeton Policy Workshop The 2010 Princeton Policy Workshop is composed of twelve graduate students at Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs and Department of History. Working under the direction of Ambassador Daniel Kurtzer, former U.S. ambassador to Egypt and Israel, the group examined the history and challenges of four case studies in the Middle East and then traveled to the region to gather relevant and diverse perspectives regarding U.S. foreign policy. The group developed recommendations to guide the Obama administration’s future decision making toward Syria and Hamas. In December 2010, the group presented its recommendations to the U.S. State Department’s Under Secretary for Political Affairs William J. Burns. Over the course of this process, the group consulted over 70 current and former officials, diplomats, scholars, and civil society leaders in Syria, Israel, the West Bank and the United States, as well as representatives from the United Nations, the European Union, and other international stakeholders. This policy workshop report represents the conclusion of the 2010 Policy Workshop. Recommendations were reached by consensus among the participating students, January, http://wws.princeton.edu/research/pwreports_fy10/WWS591d.pdf)

Any tensions will destroy credit
SAHADI 9 – 12 – 13 CNN Money Staff Jeanne Sahadi, The never-ending charade of debt ceiling fights, CNN MONEY 9 – 12 – 13 http://money.cnn.com/2013/09/12/news/economy/debt-ceiling/index.html?iid=EL

The impact is the global economy
Davidson, 9/10/13 – co-founder of NPR’s Planet Money (Adam, “Our Debt to Society” New York Times, http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/15/magazine/our-debt-to-society.html?pagewanted=all)

Nuclear war
Friedberg and Schoenfeld 8
Aaron, Prof. Politics. And IR @ Princeton’s Woodrow Wilson School and Visiting Scholar @ Witherspoon Institute, and Gabriel, Senior Editor of Commentary and Wall Street Journal, “The Dangers of a Diminished America”, 10-28, http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122455074012352571.html

Tournament: Longbeach | Round: 1 | Opponent: Torrey Pines AW | Judge: Daniel Ho
A. Interpretation – “economic engagement” means the aff must be an exclusively economic action – it cannot encompass broader forms of engagement
Jakstaite, 10 - Doctoral Candidate Vytautas Magnus University Faculty of Political Sciences and Diplomacy (Lithuania) (Gerda, “CONTAINMENT AND ENGAGEMENT AS MIDDLE-RANGE THEORIES” BALTIC JOURNAL OF LAW and POLITICS VOLUME 3, NUMBER 2 (2010), DOI: 10.2478/v10076-010-0015-7)

That’s a voter – De-limits the topic – results in millions of tiny affs – irreparably skews the debate and crushes any educational value from the discussion of the aff
Hayden 13 (Dr. Craig Hayden is an assistant professor in the International Communication Program at American University's School of International Service. “Engagement” is More Convenient than Helpful: Dissecting a Public Diplomacy Term.”, http://intermap.org/2013/06/20/engagement-is-more-convenient-than-helpful-dissecting-a-public-diplomacy-term/)