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====**Counterplan Text: The United States should offer to support and pursue full member status in the Arctic Council for China if and only if China agrees to submit it’s territorial claims in the South China Sea for unconditional arctic cooperation.**====

__ China and America share a common interest of freedom __ AND
 * CP solves for SCS conflict better than the aff – they get their arctic seat and we get peace in the SCS – the Dwyer ’15 from the 1AC is our net benefit and solvency advocate **
 * Dwyer, 15 **— Commander William G. Dwyer III, United States Coast Guard, “China’s Strategic Interests in the Arctic,” NDU Press 3rd Place Paper, United States Army War College, Joint Force Quarterly, NDU Press, [], p. 15-17

Arctic Council to a realist view