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Plan
====Plan: The United States federal government should substantially increase its diplomatic and economic engagement with the People’s Republic of China over the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank with the purpose of joining the bank.====

China Rise
====China’s rise is inevitable --- U.S. failure to __seek membership__ in the AIIB sends the signal that it doesn’t want to integrate China into global economic governance and crushes America’s ability to shape the global order==== Wyne, 15 --- contributing analyst at Wikistrat, and a global fellow with the Project for the Study of the 21st Century (4/7/15, Ali, “The American World Order and China’s New Bank,” [], article downloaded on 5/3/16, JMP) The United States has sensibly declared its intention to rebalance towards the Asia-Pacific AND writ large—than, respectively, excluding China and shunning its efforts.

====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==== 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) In 2011, U.S. president Barack Obama announced plans to "pivot AND . cooperation. Development lending could prove a minimally politically sensitive testing ground.

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.

Independently, China will be forced to turn to __aggressive military__ actions if the U.S. doesn’t support its growing role in the global economy via the AIIB
Lipscy, 15 --- Assistant Professor of Political Science and the Thomas Rohlen Center Fellow, Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center, Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, Stanford University (5/7/15, Phillip Y., “Who's Afraid of the AIIB; Why the United States Should Support China's Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank,” [], downloaded 4/23/16, JMP) When China first proposed creating the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) in 2013 AND encourage, not discourage, Chinese foreign policy initiatives such as the AIIB.

Failure to recalibrate U.S. __economic policy__ toward China risks miscalculation that triggers great power conflict
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?” [], 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** 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.

Ensuring peaceful rise is necessary to prevent World War 3 —- lack of engagement on AIIB has wrecked U.S. leadership
There is today, I think, little disagreement that the decision to invade Iraq 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)

The plan is an example of aggression limiting containment —- that is the only way to solve China's rise
Amitai Etzioni 16 —- Professor of International Affairs at George Washington University (Amitai; "The Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank: A Case Study of Multifaceted Containment; Asian Perspective; https://icps.gwu.edu/sites/icps.gwu.edu/files/downloads/Etzioni_AIIB.pdf)//pk At the same time, one may argue that the most basic foundation of the AND and aggression-limiting containment, which seeks to contain only acts of aggression

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 The Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB), the China-led financial institution, AND see a return to the darkest, unregulated days of international development finance.

Infrastructure development in Asia key to global climate change --- ensuring strong AIIB standards is critical
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 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”.

Warming outweighs and turns every impact
Our planet is 4.5 billion years old. If that whole time was AND investment patterns, and political decisions; it will be hard to fix!
 * Sharp and Kennedy, 14** – is an associate professor on the faculty of the Near East South Asia Center for Strategic Studies (NESA). A former British Army Colonel he retired in 2006 and emigrated to the U.S. Since joining NESA in 2010, he has focused on Yemen and Lebanon, and also supported NESA events into Afghanistan, Turkey, Egypt, Israel, Palestine and Qatar. He is the faculty lead for NESA’s work supporting theUAE National Defense College through an ongoing Foreign Military Sales (FMS) case. He also directs the Network of Defense and Staff Colleges (NDSC) which aims to provide best practice support to regional professional military and security sector education development and reform. Prior to joining NESA, he served for 4 years as an assistant professor at the College of International Security Affairs (CISA) at National Defense University where he wrote and taught a Masters' Degree syllabus for a program concentration in Conflict Management of Stability Operations and also taught strategy, counterterrorism, counterinsurgency, and also created an International Homeland Defense Fellowship program. At CISA he also designed, wrote and taught courses supporting the State Department's Civilian Response Corps utilizing conflict management approaches. Bob served 25 years in the British Army and was personally decorated by Her Majesty the Queen twice. Aftergraduating from the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst in 1981, he served in command and staff roles on operations in Northern Ireland, Kosovo, Gulf War 1, Afghanistan, and Cyprus. He has worked in policy and technical staff appointments in the UK Ministry of Defense and also UK Defense Intelligence plus several multi-national organizations including the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE). In his later career, he specialized in intelligence. He is a 2004 distinguished graduate of the National War College and holds a masters degree in National Security Strategy from National Defense University, Washington, D.C. AND is a renewable energy and climate change specialist who has worked for the World Bank and the Spanish Electric Utility ENDESA on carbon policy and markets (Robert and Edward, 8-22, “Climate Change and Implications for National Security” []

US engagement with the AIIB is key to enforce compliance with international environmental standards and prevent China’s development model from wrecking global democracy
Fukuyama 16 (Francis, Olivier Nomellini Senior Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies (FSI), January 12, 2016, Exporting the Chinese Model, Project Syndicate, [|http://www.bresserpereira.org.br/terceiros/2016/janeiro/16.01-Exporting-Chinese-Model.pdf //] PD) As 2016 begins, an historic contest is underway over competing development models – that AND and other important parts of the world to China and its development model.

U.S. should engage China to join the AIIB --- allows it to exert net more influence
Knight, 15 --- Faculty Director of the SIS Honors Program and Assistant Professor at American University's School of International Service and expert on international political economy (4/3/15, Sarah Cleeland Knight, “The Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank – Three Questions for Sarah Cleeland Knight,” [], article downloaded 5/11/16, JMP) A growing number of countries are joining the China-led Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank AND best, working quietly with China, to ensure that it actually does.

====U.S. involvement will allow AIIB to __safeguard its independence__ from China, develop __higher standards__ and __transparency__, reverse perception of containment and boost the credibility of its Asia rebalance==== Lazarus, 3/2/16 --- MA candidate at The Fletcher School, Tufts University (Leland, “Why the U.S. Should Embrace the AIIB; There are compelling reasons for the U.S. to join China’s new development bank,” [], article downloaded 4/24/16, JMP) China’s new Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) has been the source of considerable AND improve the AIIB as a member, instead of opposing the bank altogether. =AIIB v2=

Plan
====Plan: The United States federal government should substantially increase its diplomatic and economic engagement with the People’s Republic of China over the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank with the purpose of joining the bank.====

The AIIB’s Environmental and Social Framework allows for flexible interpretation and ineffective implementation – must ensure follow-through that prioritizes __sustainability__
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 Last week, the [|new Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB)] released its AND as the first in ultimately determining the nature of its contribution to development.¶

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 The Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB), the China-led financial institution, AND see a return to the darkest, unregulated days of international development finance.

Infrastructure development in Asia key to global climate change --- ensuring strong AIIB standards is critical
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 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”.

Warming outweighs and turns every impact
Our planet is 4.5 billion years old. If that whole time was AND investment patterns, and political decisions; it will be hard to fix!
 * Sharp and Kennedy, 14** – is an associate professor on the faculty of the Near East South Asia Center for Strategic Studies (NESA). A former British Army Colonel he retired in 2006 and emigrated to the U.S. Since joining NESA in 2010, he has focused on Yemen and Lebanon, and also supported NESA events into Afghanistan, Turkey, Egypt, Israel, Palestine and Qatar. He is the faculty lead for NESA’s work supporting theUAE National Defense College through an ongoing Foreign Military Sales (FMS) case. He also directs the Network of Defense and Staff Colleges (NDSC) which aims to provide best practice support to regional professional military and security sector education development and reform. Prior to joining NESA, he served for 4 years as an assistant professor at the College of International Security Affairs (CISA) at National Defense University where he wrote and taught a Masters' Degree syllabus for a program concentration in Conflict Management of Stability Operations and also taught strategy, counterterrorism, counterinsurgency, and also created an International Homeland Defense Fellowship program. At CISA he also designed, wrote and taught courses supporting the State Department's Civilian Response Corps utilizing conflict management approaches. Bob served 25 years in the British Army and was personally decorated by Her Majesty the Queen twice. Aftergraduating from the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst in 1981, he served in command and staff roles on operations in Northern Ireland, Kosovo, Gulf War 1, Afghanistan, and Cyprus. He has worked in policy and technical staff appointments in the UK Ministry of Defense and also UK Defense Intelligence plus several multi-national organizations including the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE). In his later career, he specialized in intelligence. He is a 2004 distinguished graduate of the National War College and holds a masters degree in National Security Strategy from National Defense University, Washington, D.C. AND is a renewable energy and climate change specialist who has worked for the World Bank and the Spanish Electric Utility ENDESA on carbon policy and markets (Robert and Edward, 8-22, “Climate Change and Implications for National Security” []

====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__==== 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” If you care about the environment and human rights, there's good reasons to be AND and human rights, the signs are all pointing in the wrong direction.¶

Chinese leadership through its investment banks is critical to __prioritize climate standards__ in infrastructure investments
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) The December 2015 UN climate summit in Paris marked a historic step forward in international AND And China has a critical role to play in making it a reality.

Climate change produces massive human injustices on impoverished nations, communities, and populations—crosses lines of race and gender—policy response key
Quipu 13 Project Quipu, examining the manner in which financial news is reported in the popular media, The Hot Spring Network proposes to create a system whereby live-update, rss-technology, and financial and editorial expertise, come together to produce a reliable up-to-the-minute resource for evaluating broad economic trends and engagements, without limiting analysis to single-parameter references like GDP or individual stock indices, “Climate Justice is About Preventing Structural Violence”, March 11, [] When we discuss climate change, global warming or the human-caused destabilization of AND without which we will not achieve the best possible outcome for real people.

Warming comes first - Ignoring Slow Violence psychologically structures ecological devastation
Nixon 11 (Rob Nixon is the Rachel Carson Professor of English, University of Wisconsin-Madison, NY Times Contributor and former is an affiliate of the Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies the Harvard University Press 2011 “Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor” Pg 2-3 http://www.elimeyerhoff.com/books/nixon-rob--slow-violence-and-the-environmentalism-of-the-poor.pdf) Underlying his plan is an overlooked but crucial subsidiary benefit that he outlined: offloading AND are scientifically convoluted cataclysms in which casualties are postponed, often for generations.

Normalization of ecological violence playing out across temporal scales justifies global violence
Nixon 11 (Rob, Rachel Carson Professor of English, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor, pgs. 2-3) Three primary concerns animate this book, chief among them my conviction that we urgently AND in situations where the conditions for sustaining life become increasingly but gradually degraded. (Christian Parenti, former visiting fellow at CUNY's Center for Place, Culture and Politics, as well as a Soros Senior Justice Fellow, teaches in the Liberal Studies program at New York University, interview with Vincent Emanuele, writer, activist and radio journalist who lives and works in the Rust Belt, “Climate Change, Militarism, Neoliberalism and the State,” May 17, 2015, http://ouleft.sp-mesolite.tilted.net/?p=1980) You mention mutual aid and how it was overhyped by the left in the aftermath AND of climate science very seriously, I am something of a carbon fundamentalist.
 * Institutional action engages a social forum for productive political action capable of transforming legal barriers to ecological crises prevention **
 * Parenti & Emanuele 15 **

No __great power war__---deterrence, economic interdependence, political and business elites and social changes
John Aziz 14, former economics and business editor at TheWeek.com, Don't worry: World War III will almost certainly never happen, March 6, http://theweek.com/article/index/257517/dont-worry-world-war-iii-will-almost-certainly-never-happen Next year will be the seventieth anniversary of the end of the last global conflict AND countries are less desperate to go to war to seize other people's stuff. The Apocalyptic discourse of the 1ac is a valuable co ntribution to its policy prescription – Veldman 12 – PhD Candidate Religion and Nature at U of Florida (Robin- National Foundation Fellow at the Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship, Spring, “Narrating the Environmental Apocalypse: How Imagining the End Facilitates Moral Reasoning Among Environmental Activists” Ethics and the Environment, Vol 17 No 1, ProjectMuse) Environmental Apocalypticism and Activism As we saw in the introduction, critics often argue that AND apocalypticism and moral reasoning looks like in practice. [End Page 12]

US engagement with the AIIB is key to enforce compliance with international environmental standards and prevent China’s development model from wrecking global democracy
Fukuyama 16 (Francis, Olivier Nomellini Senior Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies (FSI), January 12, 2016, Exporting the Chinese Model, Project Syndicate, [|http://www.bresserpereira.org.br/terceiros/2016/janeiro/16.01-Exporting-Chinese-Model.pdf //] PD) As 2016 begins, an historic contest is underway over competing development models – that AND and other important parts of the world to China and its development model.

U.S. should engage China to join the AIIB --- allows it to exert net more influence
Knight, 15 --- Faculty Director of the SIS Honors Program and Assistant Professor at American University's School of International Service and expert on international political economy (4/3/15, Sarah Cleeland Knight, “The Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank – Three Questions for Sarah Cleeland Knight,” [], article downloaded 5/11/16, JMP) A growing number of countries are joining the China-led Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank AND best, working quietly with China, to ensure that it actually does. ====U.S. involvement will allow AIIB to __safeguard its independence__ from China, develop __higher standards__ and __transparency__, reverse perception of containment and boost the credibility of its Asia rebalance==== Lazarus, 3/2/16 --- MA candidate at The Fletcher School, Tufts University (Leland, “Why the U.S. Should Embrace the AIIB; There are compelling reasons for the U.S. to join China’s new development bank,” [], article downloaded 4/24/16, JMP) China’s new Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) has been the source of considerable AND improve the AIIB as a member, instead of opposing the bank altogether.


 * Neg **
 * 1NC: Spanos, T-Positive Incentives, Elections, Japan CP (AIIB), T-Communication, T-Uncondo, Xi Good, Uncondo CP, T-QPQ, Warming K, Solar Chimney's CP, T-exclusively engagement, India DA, China CP, Russia DA, Low level CP (Arctic), T-Military, Russian Energy DA (Warming), Mitigation PIC (Warming), Taiwan Prolif (Taiwan), Taiwan CP (Taiwan), Security, T-its, T Bilateral, UNCLOS CP **
 * 2NR: Japan CP/Elections (II), Xi Good/Uncondo CP, T-Uncondo, Spanos (II), Warming K, T-Exclusively engagement, Mitigation PIC/Russia DA, T-Military, T Bilateral **