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China’s rise is inevitable --- U.S. failure to join AIIB crushes America’s long-term ability to shape the global order
The United States has sensibly declared its intention to rebalance towards **__the Asia-Pacific__** AND
 * Wyne, 15 ** --- contributing analyst at Wikistrat, and a global fellow with the Project for the Study of the 21st Century (4/7/15, Ali, “The American World Order and China’s New Bank,” [], article downloaded on 5/3/16, JMP)
 * __writ large__**__—than, respectively, excluding China and shunning its efforts__.

In 2011, U.S. president Barack Obama announced plans to "pivot AND
 * AIIB is central to China’s expanded global role and coop resolves Myanmar conflict and it spills over to cybersecurity and the South China Sea **
 * Noori, et. al, 15 ** --- Program Specialist, Middle East & North Africa Programs at United States Institute of Peace (8/24/15, Maral Noori, Daniel Jasper and Jason Tower, “Overcoming Barriers to U.S.-China Cooperation,” [], downloaded on 4/21/16, JMP)
 * __. cooperation. Development lending could prove a minimally politically sensitive testing ground.__**

One reason for this is that __no consensus exists in East Asia on the territorial__ __AND__ __conditions in which a technologically superior foe attacks crucial targets with conventional weapons.__
 * South China Sea goes nuclear. **
 * Christensen ** 6/5/** 15 ** – Thomas J., Boswell professor of world politics and director of the China and the World Program at Princeton University, is a former U.S. deputy assistant secretary of state for East Asian and Pacific affairs, “China's Rising Military: Now for the Hard Part” http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2015-06-05/china-s-rising-military-now-for-the-hard-part

Predictions of Japan’s rise leading to nuclear conflict were false //because they had a mutual stake in an Asian-based bank// AND __encourage, not discourage, Chinese foreign policy initiatives such as the AIIB.__
 * Independently, China will be forced to use __aggressive military__ actions if the U.S. doesn’t support its growing role in the global economy via AIIB which stands in for military conflicts **
 * Lipscy, 15 ** --- Assistant Professor of Political Science and the Thomas Rohlen Center Fellow

It is very worrying for the world that American policy makers should be capable of AND __us hope the appropriate lessons are learned. Pax Americana is still needed.__
 * Ensuring __peaceful rise__ is necessary to prevent World War 3 --- lack of engagement on AIIB has wrecked America’s lead **
 * Lehmann, 15 ** --- Emeritus Professor at IMD, Lausanne (Switzerland), currently Visiting Professor at Hong Kong University and at NIIT University in Neemrana, Rajasthan (India) (4/2/15, Jean-Pierre Lehmann, “China And The US: The AIIB Fiasco &amp; America's Colossal Loss Of Face,” http://www.forbes.com/sites/jplehmann/2015/04/02/china-and-the-us-the-aiib-fiasco-americas-colossal-loss-of-face/print/, article downloaded 6/14/16, JMP)

__world order.”__ **__Here’s to hoping that the__**__U__** nited **__S__** tates __heeds that judgment.__
 * Failure to recalibrate U.S. __economic policy__ toward China risks miscalculation that triggers great power conflict **
 * Wyne, 15 ** --- contributing analyst at Wikistrat and a global fellow at the Project for the Study of the 21st Century (6/1/15, Ali, “Is America’s Mind-set the Greatest Threat to Its Future?” [], article downloaded 5/3/16, JMP) *Joseph Nye is a professor at the Harvard Kennedy School and one of the most esteemed analysts of world affairs, cited in this article. He coined the term “soft power,” and is one of the world’s foremost experts on international relations.
 * __Nye suggests that the greatest threat to U.S. influence may not be__**
 * __AND__**

The plan is an example of aggression limiting containment --- that is the only way to solve China’s rise
Amitai **Etzioni 16** --- Professor of International Affairs at George Washington University (Amitai; “The Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank: A Case Study of Multifaceted Containment; Asian Perspective; https://icps.gwu.edu/sites/icps.gwu.edu/files/downloads/Etzioni_AIIB.pdf)//pk However, the record so far suggests that the United States and its allies have AND and aggression-limiting containment, which seeks to contain only acts of aggression

Plan
====Plan: The United States federal government should substantially increase its diplomatic and economic engagement with the People’s Republic of China over the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank with the purpose of joining the bank.====

Without a change to its procedures the AIIB will fuel mega infrastructure projects and a massive expansion of coal use
Bankwatch 15 [CEE Bankwatch Network, international non-governmental organisation with member organisations from countries across central and eastern Europe that monitors activities of IFIs to promote sustainable projects, “New Beijing-backed Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank struggles to convince on environment and sustainability issues”, 12/17/15, []] MG The Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB), the China-led financial institution, AND // see a return to the darkest, unregulated days of international development finance. //

Infrastructure development in Asia key to global climate change --- ensuring strong AIIB standards is critical
Nassiry and Nakhooda 16 [Darius, head of international cooperation department at Global Green Growth Institute, Director at Millennium Challenge Corporation where he led teams for development of investment programs in Asia, Smita, Climate finance fellow at World Resources Institute, “The AIIB and investment in action on climate change”, Working Paper 433, April 2016, []] MG The Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank ( //the AIIB// or the Bank) //is poised to// //AND// to achieve its stated aim to be “lean, clean and green”.

Warming is anthropogenic, and causes extinction

 * 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.

US joining the AIIB is key to enforce compliance with international environmental standards and prevent China’s development model from wrecking global democracy
Fukuyama 16 (Francis, Olivier Nomellini Senior Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies (FSI), January 12, 2016, Exporting the Chinese Model, Project Syndicate, [|http://www.bresserpereira.org.br/terceiros/2016/janeiro/16.01-Exporting-Chinese-Model.pdf //] PD) As 2016 begins, an historic contest is underway over competing development models – that AND //and other important parts of the world to China and its development model//.

U.S. should engage China to join the AIIB --- allows it to exert net more influence
Knight, 15 --- Faculty Director of the SIS Honors Program and Assistant Professor at American University's School of International Service and expert on international political economy (4/3/15, Sarah Cleeland Knight, “The Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank – Three Questions for Sarah Cleeland Knight,” [], article downloaded 5/11/16, JMP) A growing number of countries are joining the China-led Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank AND best, working quietly with China, to ensure that it actually does.

====U.S. involvement will allow AIIB to __safeguard its independence__ from China, develop __higher standards__ and __transparency__, reverse perception of containment and boost the credibility of its Asia rebalance==== Lazarus, 3/2/16 --- MA candidate at The Fletcher School, Tufts University (Leland, “Why the U.S. Should Embrace the AIIB; There are compelling reasons for the U.S. to join China’s new development bank,” [], article downloaded 4/24/16, JMP) China’s new Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) has been the source of considerable AND //improve the AIIB as a member, instead of opposing the bank altogether.//

China’s rise is inevitable --- U.S. failure to join AIIB crushes America’s long-term ability to shape the global order
The United States has sensibly declared its intention to rebalance towards **__the Asia-Pacific__** AND
 * Wyne, 15 ** --- contributing analyst at Wikistrat, and a global fellow with the Project for the Study of the 21st Century (4/7/15, Ali, “The American World Order and China’s New Bank,” [], article downloaded on 5/3/16, JMP)
 * __writ large__**__—than, respectively, excluding China and shunning its efforts__.

In 2011, U.S. president Barack Obama announced plans to "pivot AND
 * AIIB is central to China’s expanded global role and coop resolves Myanmar conflict and it spills over to cybersecurity and the South China Sea **
 * Noori, et. al, 15 ** --- Program Specialist, Middle East & North Africa Programs at United States Institute of Peace (8/24/15, Maral Noori, Daniel Jasper and Jason Tower, “Overcoming Barriers to U.S.-China Cooperation,” [], downloaded on 4/21/16, JMP)
 * __. cooperation. Development lending could prove a minimally politically sensitive testing ground.__**

One reason for this is that __no consensus exists in East Asia on the territorial__ __AND__ __conditions in which a technologically superior foe attacks crucial targets with conventional weapons.__
 * South China Sea goes nuclear. **
 * Christensen ** 6/5/** 15 ** – Thomas J., Boswell professor of world politics and director of the China and the World Program at Princeton University, is a former U.S. deputy assistant secretary of state for East Asian and Pacific affairs, “China's Rising Military: Now for the Hard Part” http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2015-06-05/china-s-rising-military-now-for-the-hard-part

Predictions of Japan’s rise leading to nuclear conflict were false //because they had a mutual stake in an Asian-based bank// AND __encourage, not discourage, Chinese foreign policy initiatives such as the AIIB.__
 * Independently, China will be forced to use __aggressive military__ actions if the U.S. doesn’t support its growing role in the global economy via AIIB which stands in for military conflicts **
 * Lipscy, 15 ** --- Assistant Professor of Political Science and the Thomas Rohlen Center Fellow

It is very worrying for the world that American policy makers should be capable of AND __us hope the appropriate lessons are learned. Pax Americana is still needed.__
 * Ensuring __peaceful rise__ is necessary to prevent World War 3 --- lack of engagement on AIIB has wrecked America’s lead **
 * Lehmann, 15 ** --- Emeritus Professor at IMD, Lausanne (Switzerland), currently Visiting Professor at Hong Kong University and at NIIT University in Neemrana, Rajasthan (India) (4/2/15, Jean-Pierre Lehmann, “China And The US: The AIIB Fiasco &amp; America's Colossal Loss Of Face,” http://www.forbes.com/sites/jplehmann/2015/04/02/china-and-the-us-the-aiib-fiasco-americas-colossal-loss-of-face/print/, article downloaded 6/14/16, JMP)

__world order.”__ **__Here’s to hoping that the__**__U__** nited **__S__** tates __heeds that judgment.__
 * Failure to recalibrate U.S. __economic policy__ toward China risks miscalculation that triggers great power conflict **
 * Wyne, 15 ** --- contributing analyst at Wikistrat and a global fellow at the Project for the Study of the 21st Century (6/1/15, Ali, “Is America’s Mind-set the Greatest Threat to Its Future?” [], article downloaded 5/3/16, JMP) *Joseph Nye is a professor at the Harvard Kennedy School and one of the most esteemed analysts of world affairs, cited in this article. He coined the term “soft power,” and is one of the world’s foremost experts on international relations.
 * __Nye suggests that the greatest threat to U.S. influence may not be__**
 * __AND__**

The plan is an example of aggression limiting containment --- that is the only way to solve China’s rise
Amitai **Etzioni 16** --- Professor of International Affairs at George Washington University (Amitai; “The Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank: A Case Study of Multifaceted Containment; Asian Perspective; https://icps.gwu.edu/sites/icps.gwu.edu/files/downloads/Etzioni_AIIB.pdf)//pk However, the record so far suggests that the United States and its allies have AND and aggression-limiting containment, which seeks to contain only acts of aggression

Plan
====Plan: The United States federal government should substantially increase its diplomatic and economic engagement with the People’s Republic of China over the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank with the purpose of joining the bank.====

Without a change to its procedures the AIIB will fuel mega infrastructure projects and a massive expansion of coal use
Bankwatch 15 [CEE Bankwatch Network, international non-governmental organisation with member organisations from countries across central and eastern Europe that monitors activities of IFIs to promote sustainable projects, “New Beijing-backed Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank struggles to convince on environment and sustainability issues”, 12/17/15, []] MG The Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB), the China-led financial institution, AND // see a return to the darkest, unregulated days of international development finance. //

Infrastructure development in Asia key to global climate change --- ensuring strong AIIB standards is critical
Nassiry and Nakhooda 16 [Darius, head of international cooperation department at Global Green Growth Institute, Director at Millennium Challenge Corporation where he led teams for development of investment programs in Asia, Smita, Climate finance fellow at World Resources Institute, “The AIIB and investment in action on climate change”, Working Paper 433, April 2016, []] MG The Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank ( //the AIIB// or the Bank) //is poised to// //AND// to achieve its stated aim to be “lean, clean and green”.

Warming is anthropogenic, and causes extinction

 * 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.

US joining the AIIB is key to enforce compliance with international environmental standards and prevent China’s development model from wrecking global democracy
Fukuyama 16 (Francis, Olivier Nomellini Senior Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies (FSI), January 12, 2016, Exporting the Chinese Model, Project Syndicate, [|http://www.bresserpereira.org.br/terceiros/2016/janeiro/16.01-Exporting-Chinese-Model.pdf //] PD) As 2016 begins, an historic contest is underway over competing development models – that AND //and other important parts of the world to China and its development model//.

U.S. should engage China to join the AIIB --- allows it to exert net more influence
Knight, 15 --- Faculty Director of the SIS Honors Program and Assistant Professor at American University's School of International Service and expert on international political economy (4/3/15, Sarah Cleeland Knight, “The Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank – Three Questions for Sarah Cleeland Knight,” [], article downloaded 5/11/16, JMP) A growing number of countries are joining the China-led Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank AND best, working quietly with China, to ensure that it actually does.

====U.S. involvement will allow AIIB to __safeguard its independence__ from China, develop __higher standards__ and __transparency__, reverse perception of containment and boost the credibility of its Asia rebalance==== Lazarus, 3/2/16 --- MA candidate at The Fletcher School, Tufts University (Leland, “Why the U.S. Should Embrace the AIIB; There are compelling reasons for the U.S. to join China’s new development bank,” [], article downloaded 4/24/16, JMP) China’s new Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) has been the source of considerable AND //improve the AIIB as a member, instead of opposing the bank altogether.//