Jeffrey+Hu+and+Aman+Sharma

**Neg Strat**
Stuff we run-T QPQ/Unconditional, Consult Japan CP, Japan DA, Elections DA, Unification CP, Unification DA, Spanos K, Rising Expectations DA, Appeasment DA,

1NC vs Korea Aff : T=unconditional, Japan DA, Unification CP, Unification DA 2NR vs Korea Aff: Japan DA

1NC vs ISS Aff: T=QPQ, Space Leadership DA, low-level Co-op CP, Spanos K, Elections DA 2NR vs ISS Aff: Elections DA

1NC vs Arctic Co-op Aff: T=Unconditional, Elections DA, Spanos K, Consult Japan CP, Japan DA 2NR vs Arctic Co-op Aff: T=unconditional

Current AIIB investment trends fuel mega infrastructure projects and coal plants – US engagement facilitates guideline harmonization and allows partnered global climate 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, https://www.americanprogress.org/issues/security/report/2016/06/13/139276/green-finance-the-next-frontier-for-u-s-china-climate-cooperation/ // PD) International finance: Going green or brown? In the post-Paris era, AND be another constructive plank in the U.S.-China climate relationship.

That determines the 2° Celsius temp threshold
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

China is willing to improve and accept US expertise
On October 24 this year, 21 Asian countries signed an agreement in Beijing that AND development of the most populous and fastest-growing region in the world.
 * 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, http://thediplomat.com/2014/12/the-environmental-implications-of-chinas-new-bank/ // PD)

The plan increases AIIB cooperation while stimulating reform in the World Bank, IMF and ADB and new Chinese lending institutions – direct U.S. engagement is key
In recent years, China has moved into development finance in a very big way AND . perspective, leaning in should be the only option on the table.
 * 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," https://www.americanprogress.org/issues/security/report/2015/09/22/121668/chinas-new-international-financing-institutions/, article downloaded 4/23/16, JMP)

Warming is real, anthropogenic, and threatens extinction
Although most of us worry about other things, climate scientists have become increasingly worried AND 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, http://www.cnn.com/2015/01/14/opinion/co2-crisis-griffin/

1ac 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.====

US AIIB engagement policy s**ends a perception of containment
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^^; https://www.chinafile.com/conversation/what-went-wrong-us-strategy-chinas-new-bank-and-what-should-washington-do-now)//pk In 2005, then United States Deputy Secretary of State Robert Zoellick famously called on AND will be able to justly claim they are truly acting as responsible stakeholders.

Engagement replaces security competition with economic dialogue
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

AIIB is the focal point of cooperation – solves SCS and cyber conflict
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)

Opposition to AIIB hinders US soft power and makes World War 3 inevitable
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)

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.