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====Text: The United States federal government should enter into prior, binding consultation with the government of Japan on whether or not the United States federal government should plan. The United States federal government will advocate the proposal during consultation and abide by the outcome of consultation. ====

Japan says yes—they have a fundamental interest in enhanced US engagement with China
Hughes 16 Professor of International Politics and Japanese Studies in PAIS, Research Associate at Centre for the Study of Globalization and Regionalization, degrees from Universities of Oxford, Rochester, and Sheffield (Christopher, Japan's Resentful Realism and Balancing China's Rise, Chinese Journal of International Politics, Summer 2016, P. 109-150, http://cjip.oxfordjournals.org/content/9/2/109.full#sec-2)//SJ Might Japan's international strategy shift radically, or indeed is it already beginning a radical AND would appear to be a highly entrenched grand strategy for Japanese policymakers.15

Prior, binding consultation's key to the alliance, the collapse of which risks shreds global nonproliferation norms, risks Japan rearm, and sparks nuclear escalation across Asia
[David – Senior Fellow at the CSIS' Pacific Forum. And John – Fellow at the CSIS' Pacific Forum. "Assuring Japan and South Korea in the Second Nuclear Age" The Washington Quarterly, Vol 38 N. 1. 2015. ln] Dubbed the second nuclear age, 2 the current context has been widely discussed for AND assuring them that the United States has an enduring interest in their partnerships.
 * Santoro & Warden '15**

That incentivizes broader Asian prolif and causes nuclear war
[Associate Professor At the University of New South Wales. Andrew T.H., Security and Conflict in East Asia, p. 31] East Asia's arms race leads the classic problem of the security dilemma, in which AND , namely China, North Korea and the USA, possess nuclear weapons.
 * Tan '15**