Gonzaga Debate Institute 2011 Mercury China Coop Aff
Inherency – No Coop Now – Wolf Clause (4/4)
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Inherency – No Coop Now – Wolf Clause (4/4)[CARD CONTINUED, NO TEXT REMOVED] «official Chinese visitors» at NASA facilities. And that is just the beginning. «We're going to continue,» he says. «We're going to do everything we can» to block any cooperation with China. NASA officials did not return calls seeking comment, but presumably White House officials and Senate Democrats signed off on it during budget negotiations. Wolf's proposal, included in the appropriations bill approved by Congress earlier this month, makes it exceedingly difficult for the space agency to carry out a joint statement the White House issued with China in January to deepen dialogue and «continue discussions on opportunities for practical future cooperation in the space arena, based on principles of transparency, reciprocity and mutual benefit.» The administration wants greater access to China's largely opaque space program, in part because knowledge of the civil space program could be leveraged to provide a better understanding of its military space activities, according to a senior administration official. Also, because China and Russia are the only other nations that send humans to space, there are those who say cooperating with both countries could yield scientific, economic and diplomatic benefits. Inherency – AT – Status Quo Solves – Wolf Clause ExpiresWolf will push for extension Financial Peoples 11 (online news source about US international influence in the business world, financialpeoples.com, 5/8/11, http://we.financialpeoples.com/congress-bans-scientific-collaboration-with-china-cites-high-espionage-risks.html, accessed 7/1/11, CW) Poster advertising lecture by co-founder of Javaphile, a hacking group based in China that has linked with multiple targeted attacks on U.S. websites, in 2007. A two-sentence clause included in the U.S. spending bill approved by Congress a few weeks ago threatens to reverse more than three decades of constructive U.S. engagement with the People’s Republic of China. The clause prohibits the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) from coordinating any joint scientific activity with China. Representative Frank Wolf (R-VA), a long-time critic of the Chinese government who chairs a House spending committee that oversees several science agencies, inserted the language into the spending legislation to prevent NASA or OSTP from using federal funds “to develop, design, plan, promulgate, implement or execute a bilateral policy, program, order, or contract of any kind to participate, collaborate, or coordinate bilaterally in any way with China or any Chinese-owned company.” By prohibiting the OSTP from working with China, Wolf claims the ban will bear on “the entire bilateral relationship on science and technology.” “It’s the whole ball of wax,” said Wolf in an interview with Science Insider. Although the ban will expire at the end of the current fiscal year in October, Wolf will seek to make the prohibition on any scientific collaboration between U.S. research agencies and China permanent. “We don’t want to give them the opportunity to take advantage of our technology, and we have nothing to gain from dealing with them,” said Wolf. “China is spying against us, and every U.S. government agency has been hit by cyber-attacks. They are stealing technology from every major U.S. company. They have taken technology from NASA, and they have hit the NSF computers . . . . You name the company, and the Chinese are trying to get its secrets.” Meanwhile, the Obama Administration has taken the position that the ban does not apply to any U.S. scientific interactions with China conducted as part of foreign policy. This interpretation will likely allow the President to continue current activities until the spending bill expires in October. Wolf’s intense concern about the possible theft of intellectual property and sensitive military technologies resulting from joint U.S.-China research activities explain why the spending bill also prohibits NASA facilities from hosting “official Chinese visitors.” While this draconian prohibition may strike some as borderline paranoid, a growing body of evidence suggests that the risks of espionage are considerably higher than most people would suspect. Wolf has learned this lesson the hard way. In 2006, Wolf’s office was targeted in a cyber-attack, which the Federal Bureau of Investigation traced to sources operating in the People’s Republic of China. Speaking from the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives in June 2008, Wolf said: In August 2006, four of the computers in my personal office were compromised by an outside source. This source first hacked into the computer of my foreign policy and human rights staff person, then the computers of my chief of staff, my legislative director, and my judiciary staff person. On these computers was information about all of the casework I have done on behalf of political dissidents and human rights activists around the world. |