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= AIIB 1AC =

Advantage one is the environment
==== The AIIB’s Environmental and Social Framework allows for flexible interpretation and ineffective implementation – must ensure follow-through that prioritizes sustainability ==== Last week, the new Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) released its Environmental and Social Framework AND in ultimately determining the nature of its contribution to development.
 * Larsen and Gilbert 3/14/16 ** [Gaia, Senior Associate in the WRI's Sustainable Finance Center, where she leads its work on financial institutions and climate finance readiness, Sean, China director and Director of Sustainability Reporting Framework at the Global Reporting Initiative, "Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank Releases New Environmental and Social Standards. How Do They Stack Up?", World Resources Institute, 3/4/16, []] MG

The Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB), the China-led financial institution, has emerged as a multilateral development bank with the backing of 57 members in record time AND 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,[]] 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 be an important new actor in international development finance AND enable the Bank 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,[]] MG

Warming is real, anthropogenic, and threatens extinction
Although most of us worry about other things, climate scientists have become increasingly worried about the survival of civilization AND "keep climate close to the Holocene range" — which means, mobilize the whole world to replace dirty energy with clean as soon as possible.
 * Griffin, 15 – ** Professor of Philosophy at Claremont, David, "The climate is ruined. So can civilization even survive?", 4-14,[]

Guideline harmonization and global leadership

 * Hart et al., 6/13/16 ** (Melanie Hart, Pete Ogden, Kelly Sims Gallagher, Melanie Hart is a Senior Fellow and Director of China Policy at the Center for American Progress. Pete Ogden is a Senior Fellow at the Center. Kelly Sims Gallagher is professor of energy and environmental policy at The Fletcher School, Tufts University. 6-13-2016, "Green Finance: The Next Frontier for U.S.-China Climate Cooperation," Center For American Progress, [] // PD)

==== Independently, there will be a race to the bottom among multilateral development banks and poorly planned infrastructure development —- impact on the environment will be even greater than climate change ==== If you care about the environment and human rights AND the signs are all pointing in the wrong direction.
 * Laurence 16 ** —- Research Professor and Australian Laureate at James Cook University (Bill, "Will New Mega-Banks Force A 'Race to The Bottom' For The Environment?", ALERT Conservation, 4/4/2016, []), "LJH"

==== Chinese leadership through its investment banks is critical to prioritize climate standards in infrastructure investments ==== The December 2015 UN climate summit in Paris AND China has a critical role to play in making it a reality.
 * Ha et al., 16 (Sangjung Ha is an analyst for the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, Thomas Hale is an **** Associate Professor in Public Policy at Oxford University, and Pete Ogden is a senior advisor and fellow at the Energy Policy Institute at the University of Chicago, 2/12/16, "After Paris, it’s "all hands on deck" for Climate Finance", Global Policy, ** [] ** // PD) **

==== Plan will stimulate reform and innovation in the existing international economic order —- including the World Bank, IMF and ADB. Direct U.S. engagement is Key ==== Elgin-Cossart & Hart, 9/22/15 —- *Senior Fellow at American Progress, where she works on issues involving foreign policy, international development, and global conflict, AND **Senior Fellow and Director of China Policy at American Progress (Molly Elgin-Cossart and Melanie Hart, "China’s New International Financing Institutions; Challenges and Opportunities for Sustainable Investment Standards,"[], article downloaded 4/23/16, JMP) In recent years, China has moved into development finance in a very big way AND leaning in should be the only option on the table.

==== China has a huge incentive to accept collaboration on environmental standards —- it has a willingness to improve its environmental standards and enforcement but it needs greater expertise and experience —- can’t rely on host government regulations to ensure effective protections ==== Ma 14 (Yuge Ma, DPhil Candidate at the Environmental Change Institute (ECI), University of Oxford, 12-5-2014, "The Environmental Implications of China’s New Bank," Diplomat, [] // PD) On October 24 this year, 21 Asian countries signed an agreement in Beijing that signaled the launch of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB AND  to ensure the sustainable development of the most populous and fastest-growing region in the world

U.S. participation is key to ensure that AIIB protects Asian environment
Chinese officials have referenced their desire to address environmental AND undermine Asia’s chance at a sustainable environmental future.
 * Economy, 14 ** —- C.V. Starr senior fellow and director of Asia Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations (10/20/14, Elizabeth, "A Chance to Introduce Social and Environmental Protections," [], article downloaded 5/3/16, JMP)

Plan
==== The United States federal government should substantially increase its economic and diplomatic engagement with the People’s Republic of China to develop sustainable investment standards in China’s financing institutions. ====

Advantage two is China rise
Scott Kennedy 15 —- Deputy Director of the Freeman Chair in China Studies and Director of the Project on Chinese Business and Political Economy at the Center for Strategic and International Studies(Scott; "What Went Wrong With U.S. Strategy on China’s New Bank and What Should Washington Do Now?"; March 25^^th^^; [])//pk In 2005, then United States Deputy Secretary of State Robert Zoellick famously called on China to be a "responsible stakeholder." AND will be able to justly claim they are truly acting as responsible stakeholders.
 * ====AIIB is China’s first signature contribution —- failure to engage it fuels perception of containment==== **

==== U.S. has to play ball with the AIIB —- engagement on past institutions is no longer sufficient ==== In the meantime, China – a country whose say in the IMF is now almost comically dwarfed by smaller economies like the U.K., France, Germany and Japan – AND the U.S. and the Western world will have to come to terms with China's continued emergence and influence.
 * Soergel, 6/10/15 ** —- Economy Reporter at U.S. News (Andrew, "Amid U.S. Paralysis, China Cashing In; While Congress has failed to move forward with IMF reforms, Beijing is poised to boost its banking power," [], article downloaded on 6/7/16, JMP) ***Note —- Rajiv Biswas is Asia-Pacific chief economist at IHS Global Insight, an economic analysis firm

==== Engaging on the AIIB is critical —- it’s the focal point for China’s expanded international role and cooperation will help resolve Myanmar conflict and spillover to cybersecurity and the South China Sea ==== In 2011, U.S. president Barack Obama announced AND 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,"[], 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" [] One reason for this is that no consensus exists in East Asia on the territorial status quo, as there did between the two Cold AND which a technologically superior foe attacks crucial targets with conventional weapons.

==== Ensuring peaceful rise is necessary to prevent World War 3 —- lack of engagement on AIIB has wrecked U.S. leadership ==== It is very worrying for the world AND was a fiasco in every sense, demeaning the status of the US. Let 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," [], article downloaded 6/14/16, JMP)

==== Independently, the plan gives the U.S. critical influence to address a number of nuclear threats and propel cooperation to a new level ==== The founder of modern Singapore, Lee Kwan Yew, who passed away recently, had a rather pointed assessment of what’s known as the AND U.S. and organizations like the World Bank and others to work out how to play with it.
 * Chakravorti, 15 ** —- Senior Associate Dean of International Business & Finance at The Fletcher School at Tufts University and founding Executive Director of Fletcher’s Institute for Business in the Global Context (4/20/15, Bhaskar, "China’s New Development Bank Is a Wake-Up Call for Washington," [], article downloaded on 6/18/16, JMP)