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1ac – Wenzhou Luxury
====Nonproductive expenditure has all but disappeared in modern life—humanity exists now in an ever-increasing state of self-objectification that is part and parcel with the history of the West’s colonial mission to eradicate mystery and unproductive consumption.====

====The systematic suppression of cultures of excessive generosity and ritual destruction of wealth, such as the Wenzhou in China, is justified based on productive rationality and the desire to promote modern utilitarian mechanisms of productivity and disciplinary power. The CCP violently attempt to end Wenzhou “superstitions,” and bend the people to savings accounts and other productive expansion, the Wenzhou people still make more sacrificial offerings than before. They are an example of a profound holdout against the oceanic tide of the productive side of economic engagement.==== Yang 13. (Mayfair, Professor of Religious Studies and East Asian Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara, “Two Logics of the Gift and Banquet: A Genealogy of China and the Northwest Coast,” Taipei: National Chengchi University, Institute of Foreign Languages, Translation Center, 2013. However, __Bataille’s work takes the Nietzschean spirit of anti- utilitariansim to new heights__ __AND__ 1990; quoted in Wang, M.M. 1995: 62)

====Status quo models of economic engagement as well as models of debate condemn us to the incessant grindstone of productive existence. This not only condemns life to a homogenized bare minimum of existence.====

====The endless drive for productivist politics with China mirrors a productive research curriculum in debate, which when taken together guarantees humanity’s inability to engage with things like death and a loss of value.====

====Instead the 1ac sacrifices productive engagement with the topic. Voting aff is the affirmation of a sovereign moment, where individuals can experience the basic freedom of luxuriousness that profane life has sought to eradicate.==== Yang 13. (Mayfair, Professor of Religious Studies and East Asian Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara, “Two Logics of the Gift and Banquet: A Genealogy of China and the Northwest Coast,” Taipei: National Chengchi University, Institute of Foreign Languages, Translation Center, 2013. __At the beginning of the 21 st century, what can we learn from this__ __AND__
 * __in divinity, must be r e- cuperated and grasped for modernity.__**

====Absent a re-orientation of the politics of expenditure, humanity will succumb to the ongoing endless homogenization of itself, the infusion of a species by the spirit of a military neoliberal machine, which has no purpose other than work. The contemporary drive towards productivity immerses humans into the ultimate technological war machine and secures a fate of techno-nihilism alongside the liquidation of meaning as humanity becomes data trash in a commodity ecosystem.==== Despite the dire warnings of the prophets of technological dystopia such as Heidegger //we remain// //AND// (2008b) two books on contemporary American supercapitalism, Great Satan’s Rage.
 * Featherstone 10.** [Mark, Senior Lecturer in Sociology at Keele University, “Death-Drive America: On Scott Wilson’s Vision of the Cultural Politics of American Nihilism in the Age of Supercapitalism,” //Fast Capitalism// 7.1, 2010]

====We affirm the topic as a luxurious economic engagement with China, even while there is no more space for material expansion, this absurd model of active and affective transgression are key to subvert the ethics of calculation that dominate contemporary society and empower political multitudes to resist the will to overproductivty and violence of empire.==== Featherstone 16. (Mark Featherstone, professor of sociology at Keele University, “Luxus: A thanatology of luxury from Nero to Bataille,” //Cultural Politics// Vol 12 Issue 1 pp. 67-71) In this article, I propose to develop an aneconomic theory of luxury that locates AND the death drive that heads over to the other side of material things.

====Perfect communication is never possible, something will always go unsaid or be unclear. But debate should not try to avoid this failure nor eliminate it, but rather protect it. The 1AC allows for the imperfection of communciton.====

====This is the only ethical option—indeterminacy of communication opens onto the incompleteness of being and the attempt to evoke a future where one is impelled to speak for another only papers over the incommensurability of communication and is done in bad faith.==== Hirsch 14, |Alexander, “Sovereignty surreal: Bataille and Fanon beyond the state of exception”|//MHELLIE Sovereignty: Marvelous Abandon Bataille’s theory of sovereignty starts with his critique of Hegel. AND Sovereignty – surreal, beautiful, powerless, irrecoverable loss – gets foregrounded

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Antonio 1995 [Robert; Professor of Sociology at the University of Kansas; Nietzsche’s Antisociology: Subjectified Culture and the End of History; American Journal of Sociology; Volume 101, No. 1; July 1995] While modern theorists saw differentiated roles and professions as a matrix of autonomy and reflexivity AND 117-18, 213, 288-89, 303-4).

====The aff on the other hadn is a joyful embrace of both the desirable and undesirable elements of communication. We cannot purge our existence of the accursed share of language, only by protecting the impossible difference fundamental to existence as communicators can we make debate great again.==== Lerman 15 (Lindsay Lerman, PhD in philosophy from the University of Guelph, “Georges Bataille's ‘Nonknowledge’ as Epistemic Expenditure: An Open Economy of Knowledge,” pp. 40-43) “Socratic College” also contains multiple claims that some kind of failure is necessarily AND that fragile something in communication too far, pushing it until it dies.

Collapse of North Korea is inevitable – it’s just a question of if it is unplanned or facilitated
Gobrey 2015 - senior research analyst for Business Insider Intelligence Pascal-Emmanuel "Why North Korea's collapse is inevitable," Aug 21, theweek.com/articles/572913/why-north-koreas-collapse-inevitable) In this case, North Korea's reigning ideology — Juche, a combination of communism AND  people whether the international community has its act together when North Korea collapses.

The wait-and-see approach towards North Korea is unsustainable – delays ensure unplanned regime collapse or uncoordinated interventions, either cause a second Korean war
Kydd 2015 – Prof of Political Science at UW Madison

Andrew H, “Pulling the Plug: Can There Be a Deal with China on Korean Unification?”, The Washington Quarterly Volume 38, Issue 2, 2015, p 63-77 The U nited S tates and South Korea have largely abandoned negotiations for a policy of //waiting// //AND// path for the Korean Peninsula is coordination on the details likely to succeed.

Collapse opens a nuclear Pandora’s box
Spector 2015 - Executive Director of the Middlebury Institute of International Studies’ James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies

Leonard, "The Future Impact of North Korea’s Emerging Nuclear Deterrent on Nuclear Nonproliferation," November, 38north.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/NKNF-Spector-Emerging-Nuclear-Deterrent.pdf Civil Unrest The potential for proliferation involving North Korea’s growing nuclear arsenal must also consider AND Box.25grave for Kim Jong Un and the North Korean people alike.

Collapse causes loose nukes and bioterror
Lind 2015 - Prof of government at Dartmouth

Jennifer, "Korean Unification: Before the Bonanza," Feb 12, http://38north.org/2015/02/jlind021215/ But aside from bulls and bears, there’s an 800-pound gorilla in the AND //fissile material, pathogens//, //and toxic chemicals could disappear across international borders//.

Kim will go down swinging, using CBWs to kill millions
Kazianis 2016 - former Exectuive Editor of the National Interest

Harry, "Why the World Should Fear North Korea's Biological Weapons," Jan 18, nationalinterest.org/blog/the-buzz/why-the-world-should-fear-north-koreas-biological-weapons-14951 While the world might be worried about all things North Korea—especially its growing AND Food for thought every time the world’s attention turns to the Korean peninsula.

A nuclear war on the peninsula would kill millions – US attempts to de-escalate would increase the risk of nuclear miscalc between great powers
Mount 2015 - Stanton Nuclear Security Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relation

Adam, The Strategic Logic of Nuclear Restraint, Survival: Global Politics and Strategy Volume 57, Issue 4, 2015, p. 53-76 As things stand today, //the most plausible scenario for US nuclear use is// in AND neighbouring countries. An invasion of North Korea would be all but impossible.

Absent the plan, no unilateral checks can prevent lash out by Kim and the spread of WMDs to terrorists – any delay could trigger the impact
Peters 2015 - Research Fellow, joined the Center for the Study of Weapons of Mass Destruction

Robert, "The WMD Challenges Posed by a Collapse of North Korea," Apr 15, 38north.org/2015/04/rpeters041415/ The most time consuming and manpower intensive operational task AND coupled with very significant manpower [human capital] requirements //could prove insurmountable.//
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China’s leverage is //__critical__// to force out North Korean leadership and ensure a //__peaceful__// transition
Kydd 2015 – Prof of Political Science at UW Madison

Andrew H, “Pulling the Plug: Can There Be a Deal with China on Korean Unification?”, The Washington Quarterly Volume 38, Issue 2, 2015, p 63-77 Finally, what about North Korea itself? Pyongyang's leadership would definitely be opposed to AND //, the U// nited //S// tates //and China must first address their legacy of mistrust.//

However, China won’t push for regime change and unification absent US concessions of troop presence
Kydd 2015 – Prof of Political Science at UW Madison

Andrew H, “Pulling the Plug: Can There Be a Deal with China on Korean Unification?”, The Washington Quarterly Volume 38, Issue 2, 2015, p 63-77 What kind of deal could enlist Chinese support for unification at a price tolerable to AND , China is unlikely to misinterpret the Korean case as setting a precedent.

Independently, the plan bolsters the Korean economy
Terry 2014 - former analyst at the CIA and a Senior Research Scholar at Columbia University’s Weatherhead East Asian Institute

Sue Mi, “A Korea Whole and Free,” July/Aug 2014 Foreign Affairs But the greatest benefits for the South would be economic. Reunification would be far AND United States -- would benefit immensely from this newfound source of economic vitality.

Korean economic leadership key to global growth, green economy, cybersecurity, prolif, terror, and climate
Many __issues today require unprecedented international cooperation__. The **__prolif__** eration of weapons of mass destruction AND __connected world. And South Korea stands ready and willing to do so.__
 * Kim, 13** – Sung-han, Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Republic of Korea (“Global Governance and Middle Powers: South Korea’s Role in the G20,” CFR, February 2013, [] //red)

Plan
====The United States federal government should substantially increase its diplomatic engagement with the People’s Republic of China by offering to withdraw United States military presence from the Korean Peninsula in exchange for the People’s Republic of China’s support for a peaceful unification of the Korean Peninsula.====

The plan is the only mechanism to reach unification. China is the only actor who can facilitate a peaceful transition and they’ll only do so on the condition of US troop removal
Kydd 2015 – Prof of Political Science at UW Madison

Andrew H, Pulling the Plug: Can There Be a Deal with China on Korean Unification?, The Washington Quarterly Volume 38, Issue 2, 2015, p 63-77 //Unification,// however, //is not going to happen unless China wants it to,// AND //S. role on the Korean peninsula//, rather than an increase. 4

The process of negotiations with China is key to facilitating strategic dialogue and is a pre-requisite for new possibilities for negotiation
Harrington and Ramberg 2014

Kent [Former CIA analyst & National Intelligence Officer for East Asia] & Bennet [Policy analyst in the Bureau of Politico-Military Affairs], The United States and South Korea: Who Does What if the North Fails?, The Washington Quarterly Volume 37, Issue 3, 2014 Even with the dim prospects for dialogue, however, there are practical reasons to AND of the Kim regime —if, of course, preliminary discussions allow.

Only a agreed to commitment between US and China solves the unification process
Chen 2015 - assistant professor of Government and Public Administration at the University of Macau

Dingding, Sorry, America: China Can't Solve Your North Korea Problem, Jan 26, nationalinterest.org/feature/sorry-america-china-cant-solve-your-north-korea-problem-12110?page=2 That being said, whether the pressure approach proves successful is not only dependent on AND a new type of great power relations between China and the United States.

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