Billy+Bert+and+Will+Matheson

Failure to grant market-status leads to an escalatory trade conflict
Goldhaber 15 – JD @ Yale, ‎Senior International Correspondent at The American Lawyer (Michael, “The U.S. Offensive in the China Trade War,” The American Lawyer, Lexis)//BB The normally conciliatory American Chamber of Commerce in China suggested last fall that China is AND caught in the cross-fire, and it won't be the last.

A US-China trade war wrecks __global__ trade norms---causes military conflict
Beams 16 – member of the International Editorial Board of the World Socialist Web Site, and an internationally-recognised expert on Marxist political economy. He has written extensively and delivered public lectures in many countries on the global financial crisis, globalisation and the collapse of the USSR (Nick, “Economic Conflicts Threaten Global Trade War,” http://www.globalresearch.ca/economic-conflicts-threaten-global-trade-war/5528689)//BB// // The ongoing stagnation in the global economy, marked by falling investment and the emergence // // AND // // slump is likewise fuelling conflicts that threaten to //erupt into another global conflagration//.

Collapse of trade norms leads to great power war
Drezner 16 – professor of international politics @ Tufts (Daniel, “Five Known Unknowns about the Next Generation Global Political Economy,” http://www.brookings.edu/~/media/research/files/papers/2016/05/future-global-political-economy-drezner/ios-drezner-web.pdf) __Multiple scholars have observed a secular decline in____interstate violence in recent decades.__ 105 AND Cold War trends and choose to allocate more scarce resources towards their militaries.

Independently, failure to grant MES causes China to opt-out of WTO obligations
Winters 16 - Professor of Economics at the University of Sussex and former Chief Economist at the Department for International Development (L. Alan, January 20, Borderlex interview with L. Alan Winters, INTERVIEW: L. Alan Winters on China MES – “a coordinated view would look like the rest of the world is ganging up on China”, http://www.borderlex.eu/interview-l-alan-winters-china-market-economy-status/)//SLR// // Q: What happens if the EU and the West more broadly do not grant // // AND // // give you market economy status”, I feel that would be //awfully aggressive//.

Chinese buy-in to WTO norms is key to long-term survival of the WTO
Brown 9 - Associate Professor in the Department of Economics and International Business School at Brandeis University and a Non-Resident Fellow in the Global Economy and Development Program at the Brookings Institution (Chad, “U.S.--China Trade Conflicts and the Future of the WTO,” 33 Fletcher F. World Aff. 27, Lexis)//BB// // This is why the WTO rules that limit any U.S. retaliation are // // AND // // is a //critical element to the long-term survival of the WTO//.

WTO solves nuclear war---credibility and resilience is key
Hamann 9 - associate in Lewis, Roca, Rothberger’s Litigation Practice Group, J.D. from Vanderbilt University Law School (GEORGIA L. Hamann, May 2009, “Replacing Slingshots with Swords: Implications of the Antigua-Gambling 22.6 Panel Report for Developing Countries and the World Trading System”, http://www.vanderbilt.edu/jotl/manage/wp-content/uploads/hamann-cr_final_final.pdf)//BB// // Voluntary compliance with WTO rules and procedures is of the utmost importance to the international // // AND // // keenly aware of the responsibility they //have to uphold the organization’s credibility// .108

The plan promotes sustainable US-China cooperation---it’s comparatively the most important gesture to China, and defuses other areas of tension
Ikenson 12 – MA in economics @ GWU, former director of international trade planning for an international accounting and business advisory firm (Daniel, “Trade Policy Priority One: Averting a U.S.-China “Trade War”,” Free Trade Bulletin, No. 47)//BB U.S. policymakers — with the help of a sympathetic media — scapegoat AND go a long way toward stopping and reversing the recent deterioration of relations.

No alt causes---market-economy status creates __momentum__ to __resolve other kinks__ in the relationship
Watson 16 – JD from Tulane University Law School, and an LLM in international and comparative law from the George Washington University Law School (K William, “Eleven Months Left to Revoke China’s Nonmarket Economy Status,” http://www.cato.org/blog/eleven-months-left-revoke-chinas-nonmarket-economy-status)//BB The WTO Antidumping Agreement lays out detailed rules for how members can implement antidumping measures AND growth and international peace by ending the NME charade as soon as possible.

Economics outweighs security
Wyne 15 – Adjunct staff @ RAND, Fellow @ Atlantic Council, MPP @ Harvard (Ali, “The Strategic Importance of U.S.-China Trade Ties,” Carnegie Council, http://www.carnegiecouncil.org/publications/ethics_online/0106)//BB At the end of March 2015, the commander of the U.S. AND of governance, and compatible understandings of history, to name a few.

Specifically---the plan sustains cooperation over __Korea__, the __Middle East__, and areas of tension
Deynoot 16 – MA International Conflict and Security @ Kent; Consultant, EU Public Affairs @ Weber-Shandick (Christiaan, “Towards China’s Market Economy Status,” April, http://webershandwick.be/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/Weber-Shandwick-Report-Towards-China-Market-Economy-Status_April-2016.pdf)//BB As it currently stands, the prospect of any quick agreement between the three economies AND as they remain committed to salvaging their position as global standard-setters.

US-China cooperation over the Korean peninsula solves conflict---new crises are likely and only US and China can defuse escalation
Gady 16 (Franz-Stefan Gady is an Associate Editor with The Diplomat, a Senior Fellow with the EastWest Institute, and has worked previously as an adjunct research assistant at the Institute for National Strategies Studies of the National Defense University in Washington, D.C., an analyst for the Project on National Security Reform, a congressionally funded nonprofit organization founded to reform the national security structure of the United States. He holds an M.A. in Strategic Studies/International Economics. “Sino-US Cooperation Over North Korea Is Now More Important Than Ever,” The Diplomat, March 19, 2016, http://thediplomat.com/2016/03/sino-us-cooperation-over-north-korea-is-now-more-important-than-ever/)//wm// // China and the United States share the same short-term interests on the Korean // // AND // Sino-US diplomatic effort. Indeed, it is a political necessity//.

US-China coop high now and key to pressure North Korea
CONOR GAFFEY, 4/1 / 2016, Writer for Newsweek, "NORTH KOREA FIRES ANOTHER MISSILE AS U.S. AND CHINA AGREE TO COOPERATE ON NUCLEAR THREAT", www.newsweek.com/north-korea-missile-barack-obama-xi-jinping-442899 China and the United States agreed to cooperate to deter North Korea AND strictly carry out U.N. resolutions” on North Korea.

US-China cooperation over the Middle East solves conflict – it stabilizes the region
__China, the United States, and the Middle East form a triangle__. __All__ __AND__ __lessons from its own economic growth, which regional governments would likely welcome__.
 * Alterman 11 ** (Jon B. Alterman is a senior vice president, holds the Zbigniew Brzezinski Chair in Global Security and Geostrategy, and is director of the Middle East Program at CSIS., “U.S.-China Relations: Cooperating and Contending Over the Middle East” Center for Strategic and International Studies, Middle east program, 2011, https://csis-prod.s3.amazonaws.com/s3fs-public/legacy_files/files/publication/110617_Alterman_ChinaExecSummary.pdf)//wm

That cooperation enhances development and checks conflict, which solves all escalation
deLeon and Jiemian 15 [Rudy deLeon, Senior Vice President of the National Security and International Policy team at the Center for American Progress, and Yang Jiemian, President of the Shanghai Institute for International Studies, “Exploring Avenues for China-U.S. Cooperation on the Middle East: CAP, CUSEF, and SIIS Dialogue” July 13, 2015, https://www.americanprogress.org/issues/security/report/2015/07/13/117226/exploring-avenues-for-china-u-s-cooperation-on-the-middle-east/]//JIH One area China and the United States should discuss in greater detail is identifying opportunities AND . Indeed, these areas overlap and provide a range of collaborative opportunities.

Middle East stabilization solves nuclear war
(James A., “Strategic Stability Reconsidered: Prospects for Escalation and Nuclear War in the Middle East” IFRI, Proliferation Papers, #26, http://www.ifri.org/downloads/PP26_Russell_2009.pdf) __Strategic stability__ in the region __is thus undermined by__ various factors: (1) AND the peoples of the region, with substantial risk for the entire world.
 * Russell 9 ** - Russell, Senior Lecturer, National Security Affairs, Naval Postgraduate School

Independently, Maintaining good relations is key to prevent miscalc and war
Ash 15 (Timothy Garton, October 16, Timothy Garton Ash is a historian, political writer and Guardian columnist., If US relations with China turn sour, there will probably be war, https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/oct/16/us-relations-china-war-america)//SLR What is the biggest challenge facing the next president of the United States? How AND and Britain, which will welcome Xi on a state visit next week.

The US will break its legal obligation to treat China as a Market Economy in 2016---removing this barrier now promotes resilient relations and a rules-based trade order
Watson 14 – JD from Tulane University Law School, and an LLM in international and comparative law from the George Washington University Law School (K William, “Will Nonmarket Economy Methodology Go Quietly into the Night?,” CATO Policy Analysis, No. 763)//BB President Obama has an important decision to make between now and December 11, 2016 AND U.S. influence in the rules-based global trading system.

The plan jump-starts relations without damaging US industries
Frisbie 16 - president of the US-China Business Council (USCBC) since November 2004, has more than 25 years of experience in business and government relations with China, including nearly 10 years living and working in Beijing, BA and MBA degrees from the University of Texas at Austin he received several National Resource Fellowships for language study and is fluent in Mandarin Chinese (John, with Erin Ennis, Senior Vice President of the US-China Business Council, “Is China A “Market Economy”? It Doesn’t Matter.,” http://www.uscnpm.org/blog/2016/05/09/is-china-a-market-economy-it-doesnt-matter/)//BB// // Based on the headlines in the trade press recently, you might get the idea // // AND // // certain sectors and //ensuring that US-China relations remain on stable footing//.

Graduating China to a market economy __before the deadline__ and __without condition__ solves US-China relations and promotes global trade liberalization
Watson 14 – JD from Tulane University Law School, and an LLM in international and comparative law from the George Washington University Law School (K William, “Will Nonmarket Economy Methodology Go Quietly into the Night?,” CATO Policy Analysis, No. 763)//BB Ending NME Altogether While history tells us that U.S.–China trade AND to the United States’ role as a leader in the global trading system.

Ending NME status solves global trade and US-China relations
Watson 14 – JD from Tulane University Law School, and an LLM in international and comparative law from the George Washington University Law School (K William, “Will Nonmarket Economy Methodology Go Quietly into the Night?,” CATO Policy Analysis, No. 763)//BB The use of antidumping measures to protect certain domestic industries may be the most widely AND the distorting effect of antidumping measures on the U.S. economy.

Advantage 1: Nuclear Power
====China’s rapidly investing in nuclear power, both domestically and internationally --- they’ve already agreed to build a plant in the UK, and they want to establish export markets --- bolstering transparency is crucial to ensure safe tech expansion==== A European nuclear plant built and operated by China? Unimaginable, one might say AND __technology is a //more transparent nuclear industry and safety regime within China itself//.__
 * Wübbeke and Ting 16** [Jost Wübbeke is head of the economy and technology program at the Mercator Institute for China Studies (MERICS) in Berlin. Guan Ting is a visiting academic fellow at MERICS, “China's Nuclear Industry Goes Global,” //The Diplomat//, February 11, 2016, http://thediplomat.com/2016/02/chinas-nuclear-industry-goes-global/]

Chinese designs are key to rapid global nuclear energy transitions --- their capital flows and labor costs make Chinese exports more cost-effective than any other country
SHENZHEN, China— China wants to shift from customer to competitor in the global AND hurdles, though these may be overcome through jointly investing with local partners.
 * Spegele 16** [Brian, graduate degrees in Mandarin and Chinese Studies from Nanjing University, WSJ China correspondent, “China Inc.’s Nuclear-Power Push,” Wall Street Journal, February 23, 2016, []]

Multifaceted nuclear industry engagement between the US and China establishes a culture of safety cooperation that establishes effective global safeguards
Nakano 14 [Jane, Fellow, Energy and National Security Program, The Center for Strategic and International Studies, “U.S.-CHINA CLEAN ENERGY COOPERATION”, Statement before the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission, [|http:// uscc.gov/sites/default/files/Testimony_Nakano_USCC_4%2025%202014_revised.pdf] ] Nuclear energy has become central to energy planning for China, the world’s most populous AND between the two countries in //enhancing regulatory and safety standards around the world//.

Current energy supplies are collapsing—increased investment in US nuclear power advances is key to prevent warming and ensure sustainable energy production
// I. __THE NEED FOR NUCLEARENERGY__ ∂ __Next-generation nuclear power should be a__// AND consumption of nuclear waste//, as discussed below in Section II.A.
 * Robock 16** [Zachary, JD, associate at Jones Day, where his practice focuses on corporate and energy matters, “Economic Solutions to Nuclear Energy's Financial Challenges”, 2016, http://repository.law.umich.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1053&context=mjeal]//DBI//

US-China cooperation over safe nuclear power development in China is key to prevent warming—now is key
// China – U.S. cooperation & planetary resurgence∂ There are many reasons // // AND // //__United States, but the__// __repercussions of success would ring throughout the planet//.__
 * Hansen 14** [James, adjunct professor in the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences at Columbia University, elected to the National Academy of Sciences, has won several awards for his climate change research, “Renewable Energy, Nuclear Power and Galileo: Do Scientists Have a Duty to Expose Popular Misconceptions?”, 2/21/14, http://www.columbia.edu/~jeh1/mailings/2014/20140221_DraftOpinion.pdf]//DBI//

Warming exacerbates various forms of structural violence
AND
 * Hoerner 8 ** ( J. Andrew, Former director of Research at the Center for a Sustainable Economy, Director of Tax Policy at the Center for Global Change at the University of Maryland College Park, and editor of Natural Resources Tax Review. He has done research on environmental economics and policy on behalf of the governments of Canada, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Switzerland, and the United States. Andrew received his B.A. in Economics from Cornell University and a J.D. from Case Western Reserve School of Law—AND—Nia Robins—former inaugural Climate Justice Corps Fellow in 2003, director of Environmental Justice and Climate Change Initiative “A Climate of Change African Americans, Global Warming, and a Just Climate Policy for the U.S.” July 2008, http://www.ejcc.org/climateofchange.pdf)
 * __Everywhere we turn, the issues and impacts of climate change confront us__**. One
 * __expected to experience more intense storms resembling Katrina__** and Rita in the future.

Warming is real and anthropogenic

 * Adams 16** --- has a degree in agriculture and cites studies done by NASA and the IPCC

(Andrew, Prince George Citizen, 4/16/16, “There is no debating scientific facts,” http://www.princegeorgecitizen.com/opinion/columnists/there-is-no-debating-scientific-facts-1.2229437)//ernst Last week I wrote about the signs of early spring and put a few jabs AND watching conspiracy theories?" P.s. The Earth is not flat.

Warming causes extinction---geological history proves
Bushnell 10 - MS in mechanical engineering, won the Lawrence A. Sperry Award, AIAA Fluid and Plasma Dynamics Award, the AIAA Dryden Lectureship, and is the recipient of many NASA Medals for outstanding Scientific Achievement and Leadership Bushnell (Dennis, "Conquering Climate Change," The Futurist 44. 3, AND, so, __ as dire as the forecasts sound, they're actually conservative __.

1ac – plan
====The United States federal government should offer to lift restrictions on foreign ownership of nuclear power reactors for investors from the People’s Republic of China in exchange for the People’s Republic of China establishing high-level intelligence exchanges between China National Nuclear Corp. and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.====

Opening investment is key to make nuclear sustainable
A. Increasing Globalization of the Nuclear Energy Industry With ninety-nine reactors AND taken foreign funding and may //even be majority-foreign-owned//. n37
 * Desai and Schroeder 16** [Sachin Desai is a law clerk for the Atomic Safety & Licensing Board Panel at the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC). Kathleen Schroeder is an attorney with the Department of Energy General Counsel's Office for Civilian Nuclear Programs, “U.S. Nuclear Foreign Ownership Policy Ready for a Refreshed Interpretation,” Energy Law Journal Vol. 37, No. 1, 2016]

====The plan revitalizes the US nuclear industry through opening up US nuclear plants to Chinese investment in exchange for approving their nuclear tech. China says yes- they agreed to a similar QPQ with Britain and they’re trying to expand to the U.S. now==== B. The Need to Revisit Restrictions on Foreign Ownership of U.S. AND Staff to reach diverging views with applicants on the meaning of the term.
 * Desai and Schroeder 16** [Sachin Desai is a law clerk for the Atomic Safety & Licensing Board Panel at the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC). Kathleen Schroeder is an attorney with the Department of Energy General Counsel's Office for Civilian Nuclear Programs, “U.S. Nuclear Foreign Ownership Policy Ready for a Refreshed Interpretation,” Energy Law Journal Vol. 37, No. 1, 2016]

Actively engaging and pressuring institutions is necessary to counter climate change
Parenti & Emanuele 15 (Christian Parenti, former visiting fellow at CUNY's Center for Place, Culture and Politics, as well as a Soros Senior Justice Fellow, teaches in the Liberal Studies program at New York University, interview with Vincent Emanuele, writer, activist and radio journalist who lives and works in the Rust Belt, “Climate Change, Militarism, Neoliberalism and the State,” May 17, 2015, http://ouleft.sp-mesolite.tilted.net/?p=1980) You mention mutual aid and how it was overhyped by the left in the aftermath AND of climate science very seriously, I am something of a carbon fundamentalist.

Institutions are key to solve warming—individual action fails and trades off
CAG 10 —Climate Change Communication Advisory Group. Dr Adam Corner School of Psychology, Cardiff University - Dr Tom Crompton Change Strategist, WWF-UK - Scott Davidson Programme Manager, Global Action Plan - Richard Hawkins Senior Researcher, Public Interest Research Centre - Professor Tim Kasser, Psychology department, Knox College, Galesburg, Illinois, USA. - Dr Renee Lertzman, Center for Sustainable Processes & Practices, Portland State University, US. - Peter Lipman, Policy Director, Sustrans. - Dr Irene Lorenzoni, Centre for Environmental Risk, University of East Anglia. - George Marshall, Founding Director, Climate Outreach, Information Network - Dr Ciaran Mundy, Director, Transition Bristol - Dr Saffron O’Neil, Department of Resource Management and Geography, University of Melbourne, Australia. - Professor Nick Pidgeon, Director, Understanding Risk Research Group, School of Psychology, Cardiff University. - Dr Anna Rabinovich, School of Psychology, University of Exeter - Rosemary Randall, Founder and director of Cambridge Carbon Footprint - Dr Lorraine Whitmarsh, School of Psychology, Cardiff University & Visiting Fellow at the, Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research. (Communicating climate change to mass public audience, http://pirc.info/downloads/communicating_climate_mass_audiences.pdf) This short advisory paper collates a set of recommendations about how best to shape mass AND //a role in fostering demand for - as well as acceptance of – policy//

Simulation and institutional deliberation motivate effective responses to climate risks
Marx et al. 7 (Sabine M, Center for Research on Environmental Decisions (CRED) @ Columbia University, Elke U. Weber, Graduate School of Business and Department of Psychology @ Columbia University, Benjamin S. Orlovea, Department of Environmental Science and Policy @ University of California Davis, Anthony Leiserowitz, Decision Research, David H. Krantz, Department of Psychology @ Columbia University, Carla Roncolia, South East Climate Consortium (SECC), Department of Biological and Agricultural Engineering @ University of Georgia and Jennifer Phillips, Bard Centre for Environmental Policy @ Bard College, “Communication and mental processes: Experiential and analytic processing of uncertain climate information”, 2007, http://climate.columbia.edu/sitefiles/file/Marx_GEC_2007.pdf) Based on the observation that experiential and analytic processing systems compete and that personal experience AND engage both systems in the process of individual and group decision-making.

The 1ac’s narrative of environmental risk is motivating and drives individual activism – proves we’ve performed our pedagogy and it’s preferable to the alt (Robin- National Foundation Fellow at the Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship, Spring, “Narrating the Environmental Apocalypse: How Imagining the End Facilitates Moral Reasoning Among Environmental Activists” Ethics and the Environment, Vol 17 No 1, ProjectMuse) Environmental Apocalypticism and Activism As we saw in the introduction, critics often argue that AND apocalypticism and moral reasoning looks like in practice. [End Page 12]
 * Veldman 12 ** – PhD Candidate Religion and Nature at U of Florida

NEG
1NC-T QPQ, Elections, Fem IR, Japan DA, Consult Japan CP, AIIB internal stakeholder CP, SCS deterrence CP, Orientalism K, Abandon Taiwan CP, T-Nonmil, E Spec, Plan Flaw, T USFG 2NR-Japan DA, Elections*4, Fem IR, AIIB CP/SCS CP/Elections, T USFG, Solvency Advocate theory RVI