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 * Past 2NRs:**

Spanos K Neolib K T-Must Be Unconditional T-NonMilitary Framework


 * Arguments Included in Past 1NCs:**

Spanos K Neolib K Nordin (Baudrillard) K Orientalism K Framework T-Must Be Unconditional T-NonMilitary T-QPQ Appeasement DA Elections DA Steel DA Steel CP HR Conditions CP Track 2 CP Japan Alliance DA Consult Japan CP


 * Affs:**

Bifo AIIB

=1AC Bifo=

====Political value systems have undergone a shift – the world is no longer shaped by traditional class systems, and the regulation of physical labor by the bourgeoisie has been replaced by a self-regulation of cognitive labor, pushing attention span and sensibility to its limit in social relationships defined by precarity.==== It is the end of summer 2011 and the economic newspapers increasingly warn that there AND are doomed to live in a century of violence, misery, and war
 * Bifo 11** [Franco Berardi, aka "Bifo," founder of the famous "Radio Alice" in Bologna and an important figure of the Italian Autonomia Movement, is a writer, media theorist, and media activist. He currently teaches Social History of the Media at the Accademia di Brera, Milan. "The Future After the End of the Economy"//ASherm]

====This shift is especially evident in the context of Chinese development as language and empathy undergo a process of becoming-labor and young people in creative industries fall into political and social disarray. The unique symbiosis of capitalism and socialism in a trajectory of growth distinct from Western economic systems has laid the foundation for the self-exploitation of millions of creative laborers.==== Despite stringent censorship on internet communications by the state, the access to pirated software AND technologies of valorisation into all spheres of social and bio-political life.
 * Kanngeiser 12** [Anja Kanngeiser is a professor of social geography at goldsmiths university "Creative labour in Shanghai: Questions on politics, composition and ambivalence"//ASherm]

====And, the development of precarious systems of cognitive labor has drastic effects on both interpersonal and global interactions – the drive to globalization is the source of contemporary global war, and the constant game of catch-up that cognitive workers must play in the accelerated imagery of the modern world induces great mental suffering in the form of panic, attention deficit disorder, anxiety, and depression.==== Are we heading into the Third World War? Yes and no: war has AND fanaticism, fascism, and war. And at the end, suicide.
 * Bifo 16** [Franco Berardi, aka "Bifo," founder of the famous "Radio Alice" in Bologna and an important figure of the Italian Autonomia Movement, is a writer, media theorist, and media activist. He currently teaches Social History of the Media at the Accademia di Brera, Milan., "The Coming Global Civil War: Is There Any Way Out?," http://www.e-flux.com/journal/the-coming-global-civil-war-is-there-any-way-out/, //ASherm]

Thus, vote affirmative to endorse chaosmosis as a process of disentanglement from semiocapitalism and reframe economic engagement with China.
====Chaosmosis is the neural reframing of existence away from accelerationist evolution and political will in favor of rhythmic engagement – this is necessary to overcome the automatization of social life and to reconstruct empathetic understanding, and is a prerequisite to any understanding of economic engagement policy.==== While info-technologies are provoking an acceleration of the rhythm of information and experience AND new dimension for human evolution, beyond the limited horizon of economic growth.
 * Bifo 15** [Franco "Bifo" Berardi, Professor of Social History of Communication at the Accademia di Belle Arti of Milan, "Heroes: Mass Murder and Suicide", Verso 2015, pg. 216-222]

====The standardization and formatting of the cognitive body has made knowledge production obsolete – our affirmation of affective and sensuous understandings of the body as a break from the programming of sensibility is necessary to redevelop political autonomy.==== While the Japanese tragedy has exposed the poisonous effects of the subjugation of knowledge by AND and artistic act of poetry will open a new space for epistemological autonomy.
 * Bifo 11** [Franco Berardi, aka "Bifo," founder of the famous "Radio Alice" in Bologna and an important figure of the Italian Autonomia Movement, is a writer, media theorist, and media activist. He currently teaches Social History of the Media at the Accademia di Brera, Milan. "I Want to Think: POST-U"//ASherm]

Contention 1 is China Rise
====China's rise is inevitable —- U.S. failure to seek membership in the AIIB sends the signal that it doesn't want to integrate China into global economic governance and crushes America's ability to shape the global order==== The United States has sensibly declared its intention to rebalance towards the Asia-Pacific AND writ large—than, respectively, excluding China and shunning its efforts.
 * 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," http://warontherocks.com/2015/04/the-american-world-order-and-chinas-new-bank/, article downloaded on 5/3/16, JMP)

Failure to recalibrate U.S. economic policy toward China risks miscalculation that triggers great power conflict
Nye suggests that the greatest threat to U.S. influence may not be AND world order." Here's to hoping that the United States heeds that judgment.
 * 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?" http://nationalinterest.org/feature/america%E2%80%99s-mind-set-the-greatest-threat-its-future-13004?page=show, 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

Lack of engagement on AIIB has wrecked U.S. leadership – ensuring peaceful rise is necessary to prevent World War 3
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.
 * 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)

Engaging on the AIIB is critical —- it's the focal point for China's expanded international role and broader US cooperation - spills over to cybersecurity and the South China Sea
In 2011, U.S. president Barack Obama announced plans to "pivot AND . cooperation. Development lending could prove a minimally politically sensitive testing ground.
 * 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," http://www.usip.org/publications/2015/08/24/overcoming-barriers-us-china-cooperation, downloaded on 4/21/16, JMP)

South China Sea conflict 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 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.

Independently, China will be forced to turn to aggressive military actions if the U.S. doesn't support its growing role in the global economy via the AIIB
When China first proposed creating the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) in 2013 AND encourage, not discourage, Chinese foreign policy initiatives such as the AIIB.
 * Lipscy, 15** —- Assistant Professor of Political Science and the Thomas Rohlen Center Fellow, Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center, Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, Stanford University (5/7/15, Phillip Y., "Who's Afraid of the AIIB; Why the United States Should Support China's Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank," https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/china/2015-05-07/whos-afraid-aiib, downloaded 4/23/16, JMP)

Washington's position on the AIIB makes the US look hypocritical and misguided —- joining solves this
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 Although some analysts have emphasized the importance of China's becoming a "responsible stakeholder" AND seems in effect to rule out any participation in international enterprises and institutions.

Contention 2 is Warming
The Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB), the China-led financial institution, AND see a return to the darkest, unregulated days of international development finance.
 * ====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, http://bankwatch.org/bwmail/63/new-beijing-backed-asian-infrastructure-investment-bank-struggles-convince-environment] MG

Infrastructure development in Asia key to global climate change —- ensuring strong AIIB standards is critical
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".
 * 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, https://www.odi.org/sites/odi.org.uk/files/resource-documents/the_aiib_and_investment_in_action_final_20160413.pdf] MG

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.

Change now is key, lest we want extinction

 * Klein 2014** - Puffin Foundation Writing Fellow at The Nation Institute and a former Miliband Fellow at the London School of Economics

Naomi, This Changes Everything, p 16-21 The assertion that we have been held back by a lack of technological solutions is AND climate crisis: we either change now or we lose our chance.29

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.====

U.S. should engage China to join the AIIB —- allows it to exert net more influence
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.
 * 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," http://www.american.edu/sis/news/20150403-3Q-Cleeland-Knight-Asian-Infrastructure-Investment-Bank.cfm, article downloaded 5/11/16, JMP)

US engagement with the AIIB is key to enforce compliance with international environmental standards and prevent China's development model from wrecking global democracy
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.
 * 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)**

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
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.
 * 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," http://thediplomat.com/2016/03/why-the-u-s-should-embrace-the-aiib/, article downloaded 4/24/16, JMP)