Maggie+Wang+and+MCho


 * Neg:**


 * 1nc stuff:**
 * T-qpq**
 * T-unconditional**
 * T-non mil**
 * Consult Japan CP**
 * Secrecy CP**
 * HR Condition CP**
 * Japan DA**
 * Elections DA**
 * Xi good ptx DA**
 * Xi bad ptx DA**
 * Rising Expectations DA**
 * Bataille K**
 * Neolib K**
 * Queer IR K**


 * 2nrs:**
 * Elections DA**
 * Japan DA**
 * Rising Expectations DA**
 * Queer IR K**

=1AC v1=

Plan
====The United States Federal Government should economically and diplomatically engage with The People's Republic of China by ending the use of Non-Market Economy Status methodology in anti-dumping calculations on the China if China agrees to promote collaborative trade initiatives designed to mitigate climate change====

The US will break its legal obligation to treat China as a Market Economy in 2016—-this prevents any meaningful trade relationship between the nations and their companies
President Obama has an important decision to make between now and December 11, 2016 AND U.S. influence in the rules-based global trading system.
 * Watson 14** – JD from Tulane University Law School, and an LLM in international and comparative law from the George Washington University Law School (K William, "Will Nonmarket Economy Methodology Go Quietly into the Night?," CATO Policy Analysis, No. 763)//BB

Failure to grant market-status leads to an escalatory trade conflict
The normally conciliatory American Chamber of Commerce in China suggested last fall that China is AND caught in the cross-fire, and it won't be the last.
 * Goldhaber 15** – JD @ Yale, ‎Senior International Correspondent at The American Lawyer (Michael, "The U.S. Offensive in the China Trade War," The American Lawyer, Lexis)//BB

A US-China trade war wrecks global trade norms—-causes military conflict
The ongoing stagnation in the global economy, marked by falling investment and the emergence AND slump is likewise fuelling conflicts that threaten to erupt into another global conflagration.
 * Beams 16** – member of the International Editorial Board of the World Socialist Web Site, and an internationally-recognised expert on Marxist political economy. He has written extensively and delivered public lectures in many countries on the global financial crisis, globalisation and the collapse of the USSR (Nick, "Economic Conflicts Threaten Global Trade War," http://www.globalresearch.ca/economic-conflicts-threaten-global-trade-war/5528689)//BB

The US is uniquely key—-they're the most protectionist country
There is one country that imposes more protectionist measures than any other. ∂ It AND USA leads here—making global trade not-so free after all."
 * Shen 15** [Lucinda, reporter, Fortune Magazine, "The country that imposes the most restrictions on trade might surprise you", 9/30/15, http://www.businessinsider.com/the-us-is-the-most-protectionist-nation-2015-9]//DBI

The impact is great power war
Multiple scholars have observed a secular decline in interstate violence in recent decades.105 AND Cold War trends and choose to allocate more scarce resources towards their militaries.
 * Drezner 16** – professor of international politics @ Tufts (Daniel, "Five Known Unknowns about the Next Generation Global Political Economy," http://www.brookings.edu//media/research/files/papers/2016/05/future-global-political-economy-drezner/ios-drezner-web.pdf)

Independently, failure to grant MES causes China to opt-out of WTO obligations
Q: What happens if the EU and the West more broadly do not grant AND give you market economy status", I feel that would be awfully aggressive.
 * Winters 16** - Professor of Economics at the University of Sussex and former Chief Economist at the Department for International Development (L. Alan, January 20, Borderlex interview with L. Alan Winters, INTERVIEW: L. Alan Winters on China MES – "a coordinated view would look like the rest of the world is ganging up on China", http://www.borderlex.eu/interview-l-alan-winters-china-market-economy-status/)//SLR

Chinese buy-in to WTO norms is key to long-term survival of the WTO
This is why the WTO rules that limit any U.S. retaliation are AND is a critical element to the long-term survival of the WTO.
 * Brown 9** - Associate Professor in the Department of Economics and International Business School at Brandeis University and a Non-Resident Fellow in the Global Economy and Development Program at the Brookings Institution (Chad, "U.S.—China Trade Conflicts and the Future of the WTO," 33 Fletcher F. World Aff. 27, Lexis)//BB

WTO solves nuclear war—-credibility and resilience is key
(GEORGIA L. Hamann, May 2009, "Replacing Slingshots with Swords: Implications of the Antigua-Gambling 22.6 Panel Report for Developing Countries and the World Trading System", http://www.vanderbilt.edu/jotl/manage/wp-content/uploads/hamann-cr_final_final.pdf)//BB Voluntary compliance with WTO rules and procedures is of the utmost importance to the international AND keenly aware of the responsibility they have to uphold the organization's credibility.108
 * Hamann 9** - associate in Lewis, Roca, Rothberger's Litigation Practice Group, J.D. from Vanderbilt University Law School

Loss of WTO credibility leads to RTA-prolif
Finally, while some attempts to conclude the Doha Round have failed because there were AND might serve states' future needs in an increasingly complex economic and political landscape.
 * Bradford 10** - Assistant Professor, University of Chicago Law School (Anu, "When the WTO Works, and How It Fails," 51 Va. J. Int'l L. 1)//BB

Regionalism without the WTO upsets the global trade balance and causes World War 3—-multilateralism promotes sustainable trade
(Sungjoon, "Defragmenting World Trade," Fall, Lexis)//BB I. INTRODUCTION: THE "SPAGHETTI BOWL" CRISIS The global trading community AND global market." n275 Defragmenting world trade is the key to this convergence.
 * Cho 6** - SJD @ Harvard Law, LLM – International Economic Law @ Michigan Law, MPA – Seoul National University, LLB – Seoul National University, Professor of International Economic Law @ IIT Chicago-Kent, consultant to the South Korean government's Ministry of Trade, Industry, and Energy, and former WTO negotiator

Paris commitments were voluntary and will fall short without follow through. Trade cooperation is a vital starting point for global trust by satisfying economic interests
Roberts, 16 - writer on energy and climate change for Vox; cites Keohane, a professor at the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton (David, Vox, "The argument for incrementalism in international climate negotiations" 5/26, http://www.vox.com/2016/5/26/11766252/international-climate-incrementalism The international community has been talking about climate change since the 1980s, with a AND how to do that ratcheting work, laying the foundation for greater ambition?

US-China clean energy engagement is increasing, but it fails to cover joint investment strategies
All told, the United States and China are making significant efforts to reduce domestic AND forward, both nations will try out different approaches to catalyze those investments.
 * Hart et al 16** Melanie Hart is a Senior Fellow and Director of China Policy at American Progress, Ph.D. in political science from the University of California, Peter Ogden is a Senior Fellow at American Progress, served on the White House Domestic Policy Council as senior director for energy and climate change and at the State Department as chief of staff to the special envoy for climate change, Kelly Sims Gallagher is a Professor of Energy and Environmental Policy at The Fletcher School, Tufts University (Melanie, Pete, and Kelly Sims, "Green Finance: The Next Frontier for U.S.-China Climate Cooperation," Center for American Progress, 6/13/16, https://www.americanprogress.org/issues/security/report/2016/06/13/139276/green-finance-the-next-frontier-for-u-s-china-climate-cooperation/)\\BPS

The gap in existing cooperation makes it impossible to meet Paris targets – joint coordination on clean energy investment is vital
International finance: Going green or brown? In the post-Paris era AND benefits for developing countries while minimizing environmental, social, and climate risks.
 * Hart et al 16** Melanie Hart is a Senior Fellow and Director of China Policy at American Progress, Ph.D. in political science from the University of California, Peter Ogden is a Senior Fellow at American Progress, served on the White House Domestic Policy Council as senior director for energy and climate change and at the State Department as chief of staff to the special envoy for climate change, Kelly Sims Gallagher is a Professor of Energy and Environmental Policy at The Fletcher School, Tufts University (Melanie, Pete, and Kelly Sims, "Green Finance: The Next Frontier for U.S.-China Climate Cooperation," Center for American Progress, 6/13/16, https://www.americanprogress.org/issues/security/report/2016/06/13/139276/green-finance-the-next-frontier-for-u-s-china-climate-cooperation/)\\BPS

Status quo cooperation is insufficient to slow the rate of climate change – it will become irreversible without greater cooperation
Shi, 15 - Key Lab of Urban Environment and Health, Institute of Urban Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences (Longyu Shi, Weichen Ma, Guofan Shao, Lina Tang, Yangyang Wang & Haowei Wang (2015) The US and China need to turn ongoing bilateral dialogue AND effective bilateral and multilateral cooperation toward immediate climate change mitigation around the world.

Warming causes extinction – action now prevents the planet from becoming uninhabitable

 * 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

The plan creates joint ventures that facilitate the global diffusion of emissions-reducing technology.
Valentine, 11 - Scott Victor Valentine is an Associate Professor and Associate Director of the MPPIP Program, Graduate School of Public Policy, University of Tokyo ("Towards the Sino-American Trade Organization for the Prevention of Climate Change (STOP-CC)" Chinese Journal of International Politics (Winter 2011) 4 (4): 447-474. doi: 10.1093/cjip/por020 Areas for Collaboration One of the drivers behind China's economic resurgence has been the AND weakness, while American strengths complement the financial shortcomings that Chinese firms face.

Scaling up current US-China clean energy joint ventures will unlock a global clean energy revolution
Forbes and Moch, 14 - *senior associate at the Climate and Energy Program at the World Resources Institute AND PhD Student at the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences at Harvard (Sarah and Jonathan, April 25, 2014, "How U.S.-China Cooperation Can Expand Clean Energy Development", http://www.wri.org/blog/2014/04/how-us-china-cooperation-can-expand-clean-energy-development. Accessed on 7/5/16) One year ago, the United States and China declared in their Joint Statement on AND United States and China, we can help unlock a clean energy revolution.

It spurs price reductions and technological innovation, as well as global modeling
Valentine, 13 – Scott Victor Valentine is an Associate Professor and Associate Director of the MPPIP Program, Graduate School of Public Policy, University of Tokyo ("Enhancing Climate Change Mitigation Efforts through Sino-American Collaboration" The Chinese Journal of International Politics, 2012, 1 of 24 doi:10.1093/cjip/pos021 The USA and China share a high degree of ideological common ground in regard to AND as heightened competition between firms gives rise to greater innovation and consumer surplus.

Trade cooperation directly limits carbon and methane emissions as well making it possible to meet global emission targets
A third major area of opportunity for China–U.S. cooperation concerns AND -US cooperation on the climate and trade issues on that organization's agenda.
 * Aldy et al 16-** Joseph Aldy is an associate professor of Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School, a visiting fellow at the Resources for the Future, a Faculty Research Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research, a Senior Advisor at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, the Faculty Chair for the Regulatory Policy Program at the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government. ("Bilateral Cooperation between China and the United States: Facilitating Progress on Climate-Change Policy," Harvard Project on Climate Agreements and National Center for Climate Change Strategy and International Cooperation; February 2016, http://belfercenter.ksg.harvard.edu/files/harvard-nscs-paper-final-160224.pdf)// CGM

China says yes green investment is in economic and party interests
Driver 1: A broader notion of development economic rebalancing China has experienced rapid AND China can compete toe-to-toe with the developed world.7
 * Moch 13** Doctor of Philosophy, Earth and Planetary Sciences from Harvard, Magna Cum Laude Bachelor of Arts in Geosciences from Woodrow Wilson School, ChinaFAQs Project Specialist (Jonathan, "Why is China taking Action on Clean energy and Climate Change?" ChinaFAQs Issue Brief, Convened by the World Resources Institute, May 2013, http://www.chinafaqs.org/files/chinainfo/ChinaFAQs_IssueBrief_WhyAction_0.pdf)\\BPS