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 * 1AC Cites**

1AC—Plan
====**The United States federal government should substantially increase its diplomatic and/or economic engagement with the People’s Republic of China by cooperating on the Silk Road Economic Belt and the 21st-century Maritime Silk Road in the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan.**====

**Afghanistan’s unstable now**
Abbasi and ul Islam, 2014 – Deputy Director, Officer-in-Charge, and Editor NDU Journal and ISSRA Papers at NDU and Additional Director at NIM, National School of Public Policy, Islamabad (Manzoor Ahmed Abbasi and Muqeem ul Islam, “Political Stability of Afghanistan: A Prerequisite for Stability of Pakistan and South Asia,” Pakistan Journal of Criminology, ProQuest, January-June 2014)//CM// // Defining // // AND // President.

** China’s Afghan coop interest is low now—US involvement in One Belt One Road creates a robust Chinese partnership stabilizing the region **
Zhou 3-11 – Program Coordinator for the China, East Asia and United States Program, working out of the EastWest Institute’s New York Center (Andi, “Can China’s ‘One Belt, One Road’ Save the US in Afghanistan?”, The Diplomat, 3-11-16, http://thediplomat.com/2016/03/can-chinas-one-belt-one-road-save-the-us-in-afghanistan/)//JH// // Few // // AND // Afghanistan.

**Both sides want Afghan stability, but status quo US-China engagement isn’t sufficient to solve cuz __OBOR is key__**
Wu 16 – Ph.D. in international relations, Associate Dean/Professor, School of International Relations and Public Affairs, Fudan University, Shanghai (Xinbo, “Cooperation, competition and shaping the outlook: the United States and China’s neighbourhood diplomacy,” International Affairs, July, http://dx.doi.org.proxy.lib.umich.edu/10.1111/1468-2346.12651)//SD// // Broadly // // AND // forces.

** US-Sino cooperation over Afghanistan solves __regional instability__ and __terror__—also spills over to solve __broader US-China relations__ **
Caragliano and Coburn 15 – David, international development professional currently managing programs in Asia and Noah, professor of political anthropology at Bennington College, served as an election monitor in Afghanistan in 2014, The Diplomat 15, 4-21-2015, "Could Afghanistan Be a Model for US-China Cooperation?," Diplomat, [] China’s AND //cooperation//.

**China __welcomes__ Afghan inclusion in OBOR**
Tran 15 program advisor for The Asia Foundation in China (Tini, "Beijing Panel Explores Stabilizing Afghanistan: A Role for the Neighbors?", The Asia Foundation, 7/8/15, asiafoundation.org/2015/07/08/beijing-panel-explores-stabilizing-afghanistan-a-role-for-the-neighbors/)//NY// // As // // AND // essential//.

**Afghan instability spills over into Central Asia**
Lal 6 – RAND Corporation (Rollie, Central Asia and Its Asian Neighbors, http://www.rand.org/pubs/monographs/MG440) The Asian AND security interests.

**Central Asian instability goes nuclear**
Blank 1 - professor of research at the Strategic Studies Institute of the US Army War College, (Stephen, __Central Asian Security: The New International Context__, ed: Allison, p. 142-144) The AND rivals.66

** Afghan stability key to Pakistan stability—destabilization causes Indo-Pak war **
Kenny 16, Colonel Stuart Kenny graduated from the Royal Military College, Duntroon in 1991. Colonel Kenny is a graduate of the UK’s Joint Services Command and Staff College 2003/04. He attended the Defence and Strategic Studies Course at the Centre for Defence and Strategic Studies Course at the Australian Defence College, graduating with a Master of Arts (Strategic Studies) from Deakin University. (Suart, Australian Defense College April 2016 “Instability in Afghanistan: Why Afghanistan matters and what Australia can do to address the causes of instability” http://www.defence.gov.au/ADC/Publications/IndoPac/Kenny%20Afghanistan%20IPSP.pdf) //eb// //The direct // // AND // Pakistan.

**That causes extinction**
IPPNW 13, (N/A, International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War, “India-Pakistan nuclear war could 'end human civilization,” The Telegraph, [], 12/10/13) A nuclear AND author.

** Unless the US streamlines OBOR in Afghanistan, Uyghur terrorism is __inevitable__ **
Clarke 15, Clarke is Associate Professor at the National Security College, ANU. He is the author of Xinjiang and China’s Rise in Central Asia – A History (Michael, “Afghanistan: An Opportunity for U.S.–China Cooperation?” The National Interest, 10/12/15, []) //eb// // First, the OBOR// AND strategy.

**The risk of Uyghur terror is rising**
// The Threat of Terrorism // // AND // counterterrorism policy.
 * Potter 13 ** – assistant professor of public policy and political science at the University of Michigan (Philip B. K. Potter, “Terrorism in China Growing Threats with Global Implications,” Strategic Studies Quarterly, winter 2013, http://www.au.af.mil/au/ssq/digital/pdf/winter_13/2013winter-Potter.pdf)//CM//

**Continued Uyghur terror destabilizes the CCP**
Devary 14 - a contracted researcher at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Center for Global Security and Brookhaven National Laboratory (Scott, "The Approaching AND the CCP.

**That causes nuclear war**
Yee and Storey 2 [Professor of Politics and International Relations at Hong Kong Baptist University and Lecturer in Defence Studies at Deakin University, “The China Threat: Perceptions, Myths and Reality,” p. 5] The fourth AND the world.

**China’s economy slowing now**
Li 6/27 —an associate professor of economics at the University of Utah.Minqi Li has published many articles in the filed of political economy, the Chinese economy, global capitalist crisis, peak oil, and climate change. (Minqi, Why is China's Economy Slowing Down?, The Real News Network, 6/27/16, @http://therealnews.com/t2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74&jumival=11405 ) //ET// // In spite // // AND // __ India __.

** US-China coop over Afghanistan ensures success of China’s OBOR initiative **
Xiaochen 1/14-- Chen, researcher at Chongyang institute for Financial Studies, Renmin University of China, 1-14-2016, "China and US have reasons to cooperate in Afghanistan," China Daily, http://search.proquest.com.proxy.lib.umich.edu/docview/1756279746/CE827B2265DA4354PQ/1?accountid=14667 But why AND //relations.//

** OBOR key to the Chinese economy **
Wong 15, Deputy Chairman and Chief Executive, The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation Limited, (Peter, China to widen its economic influence by “One Belt, One Road” HSBC Global Connections 10/5/15, https://globalconnections.hsbc.com/singapore/en/articles/china-widen-its-economic-influence-one-belt-one-road) //eb// // In response // // AND // than China.

**China is __uniquely situated__ to help Afghanistan but __US support__ is key to ensure __success__**
Khalilzad 14 [Zalmay – Previous U.S ambassador to Afghanistan, Iraq, and the United Nations under President George Bush, U.S. counselor at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), President of Khalilzad Associations – an international business consulting firm, “ Why Afghanistan Courts China”, Nov. 3rd 2014, []] Last week, AND __to China__

**The New Silk Road lays foundation for US-Sino cooperation in Afghanistan**
Huang ** Yinjiazi, ** 09/14/** 15 **, (Huang Yinjiazi, writer for Xinhua News Agency, September 14, 2015, “(Xi's U.S. Visit) Spotlight: Silk Road wide enough for China-U.S. cooperation”, [], accessed on 6/21/16) BEIJING, Sept. 14 AND Yang said.

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