Exact Plan Text: Plan: The United States Federal Government should propose a substantial reduction in its export controls to the People’s Republic of China in exchange for increased market access.
Advantages/Harms (with explanation):
Securitization: US policy makers are typically influenced by a narrative of Manifest Destiny that discursively justifies US supremacy and demonizes those who fall out of Western universalism. Today, fears of a rising China are fueled by the perceived threat to Western values and security. Without questioning these myths and fears, distortions of China masquerade as objectivity while fear-driven containment policies preclude cooperative engagement on territorial, economic and environmental issues.
Space Science: ITAR (International Traffic in Arms Regulations) and the EAR (Export Administration Regulations) are export control regulations. Overly broad ITAR application blocks U.S space advancements and tech-sharing with China. Effective space science is necessary for environmental monitoring to solve the impacts of ozone loss and air pollution
Warming: Without re-framing our engagement with China and our association of pollution with “the Yellow Peril,” we will be unable to successfully assess and set norms for emissions and consumption or cooperatively support the development of green technology. These measures are necessary to solve global warming.
Solvency Mechanisms:
Analyzing representations can meaningfully inform as well as shift the aims and strategies of policy-making.
Through shifting our approach to China and opening trade with them, we can better pursue cooperative engagement to address warming, including stimulating economic incentives for the financing and innovation of green technology.
The aff’s approach solves education in-round. Since policy simulations and scenario planning are just heuristics for real-world education, the role of the judge should be to endorse the best critical scholarship for policy construction in the round. Crisis-driven impact evaluation that doesn’t interrogate the assumptions behind policies, and the representations offered by them, is counterproductive to education because it precludes deeper education about policy construction and leaves us ill-prepared to work toward better policies when we will actually be old enough to work on them.
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Pan 04, [Chengxin, Senior Lecturer in International Relations at the School of Humanities and Social Sciences and a member of the Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation at Deakin University. Held visiting positions at the University of Melbourne, the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Peking University, and the University of Macau. Member of the International Studies Association (ISA), American Political Science Association, Australian Political Studies Association, Australian Institute of International Affairs, and the Research Institute on Social Cohesion (Department of Premier and Cabinet of the Victorian Government), and has been on the editorial board of Series in International Relations Classics (World Affairs Press, Beijing). In 2015, was awarded a 2016 Endeavour Research Fellowship from the Australian Government. Also won a conference/seminar grant from the Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation for International Scholarly Exchange for the international workshop on 'Theorising China's Rise in/beyond International Relations'.L.C.]
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