Gonzaga Debate Institute 2011 Mercury China Coop Aff
Politics Aff – China Bashing Now (1/2)
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Politics Aff – China Bashing Now (1/2)2012 Campaign is already prompting China bashing – economic fears, Human Rights, and political Posturing Burns, Former Editor for the Harvard Political Review, 5/24/11 (Alexander – Staff Writer Politico, Politico, 5/24/11, “GOP sees red over China”, Lexis, Accessed July 8, 2011) AC The 2012 foreign policy debate is just getting under way, but already the Republican presidential field has picked a favorite overseas punching bag: China. After several presidential elections dominated by security issues in the Middle East, fear of a red menace in the Far East is making a comeback. And no country in that region casts a larger or more frightening political shadow than China - a nation that seems to embody every economic and foreign policy anxiety of the GOP primary electorate. The likely candidacy of Jon Huntsman, the Mandarin-speaking former ambassador to Beijing, ensures China will be on the Republican agenda in 2012. But that's only going to accelerate a trend that's already under way. Tim Pawlenty, who announced his bid for president Monday, tells audiences that "America's rightful place is not lagging behind China," alluding to widespread concern among conservatives that the United States is on the down swing. Another Minnesotan poised to run for president, Rep. Michele Bachmann, won applause at the Conservative Political Action Conference this year by railing against the national debt and proclaiming "Hu's your daddy!" - a reference to Chinese President Hu Jintao that Bachmann has used since. Even Donald Trump, before he pulled his name out of the 2012 hat, found traction on the issue, telling workers in New Hampshire that China "is raping this country." The day after Mike Huckabee withdrew from consideration, he voiced a similar concern, noting that Americans are "getting shanghaied by China." It's not just the activist right that's fired up about China. Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney has called China "a great threat to the stability of the world" - strong words from a former private-equity executive schooled in the ways of global economic competition. Republicans say the early attention to China, driven in many cases by talk radio and conservative cable news, reflects the sheer number of core conservative issues that intersect there. China's an economic juggernaut and the largest holder of U.S. debt. Based on that alone, the country would figure big in the imagination of Republicans concerned about the notion of American national decline. But China's also a national security rival and a human rights violator with little regard for religious freedom, making it especially relevant to the foreign policy and social conservative wings of the GOP. "If you don't care about jobs, you don't care about defense and you don't care about the persecution of the Catholic Church, then you can ignore it," said Virginia Rep. Frank Wolf, a vocal Republican China hawk. "If the Republican Party doesn't talk about this issue, I think it's a failing of leadership." On one level, China's presence on the campaign trail is nothing new: Many Democrats ran ads last year accusing the GOP of wanting to ship jobs overseas, including to China. In the special House election unfolding in upstate New York, tea party candidate Jack Davis has run a protectionism-heavy campaign with ads showing a laid-off father telling his family, "Company's moving to China." But in the presidential race, it's not just job loss or trade issues that are making China part of the conversation. Former Tennessee Sen. Jim Sasser, a Democrat who served as President Bill Clinton's ambassador to Beijing, said that China serves as a stand-in for a much broader sense of unease. "As far as the man in the street or the woman in the street is concerned, it's now a question of economic rivalry," Sasser said. "There is also a sense of curiosity about China and even a kind of grudging admiration for what they have accomplished in their economy." "The shadow of Tiananmen still lingers in some people's minds and, I think, has an adverse, negative impact," Sasser continued, referring to the 1989 massacre of pro-democracy demonstrators in the Chinese capital Politics Aff - China Bashing Now (2/2)A survey taken earlier this year by the Pew Research Center found that anxiety about China isn't confined to the right, even if that's where worries about East Asia have been aired most publicly. In Pew's polling, a plurality of Americans - 20 percent - named China as the greatest international threat to the U.S. That compares with 18 percent who named North Korea and 12 percent who chose Iran. More Americans pointed to China as the world's foremost economic power than the U.S., by 47 percent to 31 percent, vividly illustrating the electorate's sense of national vulnerability. Andrew Kohut, who heads the Pew Research Center, said that voters' fears about China are overwhelmingly centered on the economy, which could make it even more relevant to the pocketbook-focused 2012 campaign. Congress bashing China now – official statements Rep. Ros-Lehtinen (R-FL) Press Release, 7/1/11 (Ileana, US Federal News Service – Newswire, “CHAIRMAN ROS-LEHTINEN SAYS CHINESE COMMUNIST PARTY, AT 90, STILL BRUTAL PARTY OF MAO URGES ADMINISTRATION TO SPEAK OUT ON CHINA'S HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSES,” Lexis, Accessed July 8, 2011) AC WASHINGTON, July 1 -- The House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman issued the following statement: U.S. Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-FL), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, released the following statement today on the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), which was founded on July 1, 1921: "A foreign implant of the Soviet Union's Comintern, the Chinese Communist Party has a bloody history. Tens of millions have been killed under the CCP's rule. "The regime in Beijing is using the anniversary of the founding of the CCP to attempt to rewrite history and whitewash its current record. "The truth is that, at 90, the CCP remains the brutal party of Mao. The present-day Chinese dictatorship oppresses the Chinese people and all those subjugated to its rule, imprisons dissidents, bans religious expression, and turns to violence against innocent people as a means of clinging to power. "Rather than shrinking away from the topic, the President and the State Department should speak out loudly and frequently against China's terrible human rights record." For any query with respect to this article or any other content requirement, please contact Editor at htsyndication@hindustantimes.com Rollback/Wolf Clause Answer (1/2)Plan is consistent with the president’s constitutional authority to conduct international negotiations – trumping Wolf clause Svitak, Space News, 5-4-11 [Amy, Space News, “China Viewed as Potential U.S. Partner in Future Mars Exploration”, http://www.spacenews.com/policy/110504-china-partner-mars-exploration.html, accessed 7-10-11] Recently enacted legislation prohibits U.S. government collaboration with the Chinese in areas funded by Wolf’s subcommittee, whose jurisdiction also includes the U.S. Commerce and Justice departments, the National Science Foundation and the National Institute of Standards and Technology. When asked how he interpreted the new law, part of a continuing resolution approved in April that funds federal agencies through Sept. 30, Holdren said the administration will live within the terms of the prohibition. “I am instructed, after consultation with counsel, who in turn consulted with appropriate people in the Department of Justice, that that language should not be read as prohibiting actions that are part of the president’s constitutional authority to conduct negotiations,” Holdren said. “At the same time there are obviously a variety of aspects of that prohibition that very much apply and we’ll be looking at that on a case by case basis in [the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy] to be sure we are compliant.” Rep. John Culberson (R-Texas), who joined Wolf last fall in opposing an official visit to Beijing by Bolden, accused Holdren and the White House of plotting to circumvent the law. “It’s not ambiguous, it’s not confusing, but you just stated to the chairman of this committee that you and the administration have already embarked on a policy to evade and avoid this very specific and unambiguous requirement of law if in your opinion it is in furtherance of negotiation of a treaty,” Culberson said. “That’s exactly what you just said. I don’t want to hear about you not being a lawyer.”
(Dean, senior analyst, first with Science Applications International Corp, “Lost in Space: The Administration’s Rush for Sino–U.S. Space Cooperation”, The Foundry, http://blog.heritage.org/2011/05/09/lost-in-space-the-administration%E2%80%99s-rush-for-sino%E2%80%93u-s-space-cooperation/, accessed July 8, 2011, NS) The Obama Administration appears absolutely intent on engaging the PRC in space cooperation. How else to explain the claim by White House Office of Science and Technology Policy Director John Holdren that the congressional restriction banning U.S.–Chinese space cooperation under just about any circumstances was not, in fact, a ban? According to Holdren, the White House has concluded that the provision doesn’t extend to “prohibiting interactions that are part of the president’s constitutional authority to conduct negotiations.” That includes, he said, a bilateral agreement on scientific cooperation between the two countries that dates back to 1979. One doesn’t need a presidential signing statement to see that the White House is near-desperate to engage the PRC in space cooperation. Rollback/Wolf Clause Answer (2/2)Wolf’s ban doesn’t apply to presidential ability to conduct foreign policy – its Legal Mervis, Deputy Editor Science Magazine, 5/4/11 (Jeffrey, Science Magazine, 5/4/11, Holdren's Response to Ban on China Science Partnerships Draws GOP Ire, http://news.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2011/05/holdrens-response-to-ban-on-china.html, Access: 7/13/11) The Obama Administration has carved out a loophole in the recent congressional ban on scientific interactions with China that would permit most activities between the two countries to continue. But that interpretation doesn't sit well with Republicans in the House of Representatives who drafted the language, one of whom said today that ignoring the ban could imperil funding for NASA or other science agencies. The ban is part of the 2011 budget approved last month to avert a government shutdown. It was crafted by Representative Frank Wolf (R-VA), a fierce critic of China who chairs a House spending committee that oversees several science agencies. The ban says that no funds can be used by NASA or the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) "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." It also prevents any NASA facility from hosting "official Chinese visitors." Appearing today before that panel to defend the Administration's 2012 budget request for science, presidential advisor John Holdren told Wolf that, in effect, the ban doesn't apply to the president's ability to conduct foreign policy. That authority, Holdren explained, extends to a bilateral agreement on scientific cooperation that Holdren and China's science minister signed in January that builds upon a 1979 pact that has spawned activities between many U.S. agencies and their Chinese counterparts. Wolf asked Holdren for his interpretation of the budget language. "It is our intent to live within the terms of that prohibition insofar as doing so is consistent with my responsibilities to execute the president's constitutional authority," said Holdren. "I have been instructed after appropriate consultation ... that the prohibition should not be read as prohibiting interactions that are part of the president's constitutional authority to conduct negotiations. At the same time, there obviously are a variety of aspects of that prohibition that very much apply to OSTP, and we will be looking at that on a case-by-case basis." Regime Legitimacy Bad AnswerStatus quo attempts to reform China through space sanctions is ineffective and backfires Moltz, Naval Postgraduate School associate professor, 5/11/11 (Dr. James Clay, “Military And Civil Space Programs In China; Committee: Senate U.S.-China Economic And Security Review Commission”, Capitol Hill Hearing Testimony, LexisNexis, accessed 7/1/11) EK U.S. policy toward China's space program is following respectable but unrealistic goals: to change Chinese human rights policy and military behavior through space sanctions. Sadly, this policy is not working. It is time to explore other options. The marketplace for space technology has become globalized. It is also now much less dependent on U.S. products. For this reason, our strategy aimed at isolating China in space has become ineffective. Other advanced countries recognize the value of the Chinese space market and can produce technologies that are attractive to China. The United States stands aside to its own disadvantage and to the detriment of our space competitiveness. Russians and Europeans have ITARfree products that provide nearly comparable space services. Overly restrictive export controls also harm U.S. political influence in the space field, as emerging countries form ties with China as a favored supplier. Plan would not legitimate Chinese practices – Soviet-era coop proves Svitak, Space News, 5-4-11 [Amy, Space News, “China Viewed as Potential U.S. Partner in Future Mars Exploration”, http://www.spacenews.com/policy/110504-china-partner-mars-exploration.html, accessed 7-10-11] Holdren said he admired Wolf’s leadership in calling attention to China’s human rights record, but noted that even when then-U.S. President Ronald Reagan referred to the former Soviet Union as “the evil empire” in the late 1980s, he continued to cooperate with the communist bloc in science and technology if doing so was deemed in the U.S. national interest. “The efforts we are undertaking to do things together with China in science and technology are very carefully crafted to be efforts that are in our own national interest,” Holdren said. “That does not mean that we admire the Chinese government; that does not mean we are blind to the human rights abuses.” Holdren said that as White House science adviser, his capacity to influence the president’s diplomatic approach to Beijing is limited. “I am not the person who’s going to be whispering in the president’s ear on what our stance toward China should be, government to government, except in the domain where I have the responsibility for helping the president judge whether particular activities in science and technology are in our national interest or not,” Holdren said.
(Jeffrey has a M.S. in environmental science and Master in Public Administration,1995, Indiana University, School of Public and Environmental Affairs B.S. in aerospace engineering and B.A. in general arts and sciences, 1985, Pennsylvania State University http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/row/RS22777.pdf “China’s Space Program: Options for U.S.-China Cooperation”pg 1-2 accessed: 6-28-11) TJL China’s space program was initially institutionalized under the People’s Liberation Army (PLA). In a series of government reforms in the 1990s, the China National Space Administration (CNSA) — roughly equivalent to the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) — was created under the civilian Commission of Science, Technology and Industry for National Defense. The PLA continues to play a role in China’s overall space activities managing both manned civilian and military efforts, while CNSA handles unmanned scientific projects and international collaboration. China’s space activities and intentions are not transparent; the dual-use nature of most space technology compounds the uncertainties of interpreting Chinese decision making. 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. Objective files -> Pop Warner History files -> North Carolina Inclusion Initiative Mapping Where Children with ieps are Being Served Purpose files -> Fall 2013 Spring 2014 Program Data: Standard 1 Exhibit 4d files -> Hanban – asia society confucius classrooms network 2010 request for proposal files -> Northern England’s set-jetting locations Download 0.99 Mb. Share with your friends:
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