Gonzaga Debate Institute 2011 Mercury China Coop Aff
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Coop Good – EnergyCooperation with China key to new energy solutions—China has the resources and American cooperation key Jinnette, Lieutenant Colonel, 9 (James G., Strategy Research Project, “US China Policy: Time for Robust Engagement”, p. 13-14, http://www.dtic.mil/cgi-bin/GetTRDoc?Location=U2&doc=GetTRDoc.pdf&AD=ADA497538) PG Hand in hand with the shared global economy, decisions within the realm of energy policy offer unique challenges and phenomenal opportunities for both nations. Beijing has an insatiable appetite for resources, because they are foundational to China’s consistent growth, and its social stability built on this cornerstone growth is critical to the survival of the Chinese Communist Party.31 Throughout the world, China is on a hunt for energy resources. Its widespread efforts to secure resources, especially oil, within Central Asia, Africa, and Latin America are remarkable in scope and planning. Projecting an exponential rate of growth in oil consumption as its middle class becomes more mobile, China sees resource acquisition as a keystone of its long-term growth strategy. Opportunities exist, however, which go far beyond simple acquisition of resources. Remarkably, China is horribly inefficient in using the oil it currently has. Secretary Paulson colorfully pointed out that “if China today were as efficient as the United States was in 1970, it would save the equivalent of 16 million barrels of oil a day, or almost 20 percent of the world’s daily oil consumption.”32 Cong Cao notes that energy cooperation tops the list of areas in which China and the US could join forces for shared benefit. Technologically, America is uniquely capable of providing expertise to the Chinese government at a time when energy is China’s chief concern. Policy makers chart a clear win-win scenario when cooperative engagements in support of energy initiatives can be seen as methods to strengthen mutual support between two great nations while simultaneously reducing environmental pollution, reducing energy costs, and eliminating potential friction points across the globe. Furthermore, economic partnerships which would spring from such ventures would strengthen both nations. Coop Good – Energy, Relations & EconomyClean energy coop key to broader relations and global economy China Daily, 1/30/11 [China Daily, “Critical test for Sino-US ties: Clean energy” 1/30/11, http://rael.berkeley.edu/node/657, accessed 6/31/11, HK] "Clean energy cooperation will be a key litmus test of the ability of China and the United States to build a partnership based on mutual needs and opportunities. The outcome is of long-lasting global economic, environmental and geopolitical importance. While quiet cooperation does exist between the two countries in the form of decades of joint work on energy efficiency standards and through a new but under-funded US-China Clean Energy Research Center, far higher profile actions, however, point toward conflict. First, 2009 ended with an unproductive US-China standoff at the Copenhagen Climate Summit. Second was China's rapid scale-up of production and global sales of renewable energy technology - specifically solar panels, wind turbines and batteries for the burgeoning electric vehicle markets. Third are the high-level tensions over Chinese dominance in the production of rare earth metals for advanced electronics. Taken in sum, many see these events the precursors to a "Sputnik Moment" for the US in the race for leadership in the 21st century.However, a far more mutually profitable route exists, one that both nations and the global community need to nurture. If necessity is the mother of invention, cooperation may be the missing father. China's incredible acceleration of production and sales of clean energy technology is the result of necessity. China has become world's largest energy consumer, and while its coal resources are vast - 70 percent of China's energy and 80 percent of its electricity come from coal - no other nation pays as high an environmental cost for energy than does China. China has no other path to continued growth and energy security for its 1.3 billion people than through renewable and energy efficiency. To meet the rising demand, China invested more than $50 billion in clean energy in 2010 alone. To put this in perspective, the Chinese invested twice as much in clean energy as did the US. The US, too, is dependent on coal, for 49 percent of electricity in 2010. Energy is the largest component of US annual imports, with crude oil accounting for only 38.4 percent of the US trade deficit in 2009. Both nations made clean energy investment central to their recent national stimulus plans, and US President Barack Obama has many times linked economic recovery to "green jobs". The two countries critically need each other to build the clean energy economy for the 21st century. China is arguably the most important proving grounds for what clean energy needs most today: scale-up. China needs energy to grow and has a political system that can drive the exponential growth needed to move renewable energy to the center of the global energy system. The US has a nimble and deep research and development system, with the "Silicon Valley Mentality" of serial innovators and entrepreneurs whose wealth creation is the envy of the world. The US also has a huge resource in its capacity for capital market and enterprise management. Coop Good – ProlifSpace partnerships can benefit counterproliferation goals Hays, retired Airforce Lieutenant Colonel, 9 (Peter L., senior policy analyst supporting the plans and programs division of the National Security Space Office “Space and Sino-American Security Relations” http://web.mac.com/rharrison5/Eisenhower_Center_for_Space_and_Defense_Studies/Journal_Vol_2_No_3_files/Space%20and%20Defense%202_3.pdf SPACE and DEFENSE Volume Two Number Three Winter 2009 accessed: 6/28/11 pg 20-21) TJL The end of the Cold War removed one important motivation for prestige-based civil space activities and strengthened incentives to pursue cooperative ventures such as the International Space Station (ISS). The United States also had important counterproliferation objectives in employing Russian space scientists in the civil sector as major partners on the ISS effort and lessening their potential to contribute to the weapons market. In addition, development and use of the aerospace workers and industrial base that supports civil and all other space activities are significantly out of phase in the United States and China. The United States has lost 750,000 scientific and technical workers since the end of the Cold War, 60 percent of aerospace industry workers are over age 45 and 25 percent are eligible to retire; by contrast, a large percentage of the Chinese aerospace industry workforce is under age 45 and the Chinese graduate some 351,500 engineers each year, versus about 137,400 engineers graduated from four year engineering programs in the United States.4 Directory: files files -> Answer True False 2 points Question 2 files -> Integer programming and game theory files -> 4 Integer Programming files -> Bpa vehicle Window Repair Scenario #1 task: Procure vehicle window relacement. 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