Gonzaga Debate Institute 2011 Mercury China Coop Aff
Can’t Spy Through Coop – No Disclosure
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Can’t Spy Through Coop – No DisclosureU.S. does not have to reveal key plans or strategies Kennedy, advocate with the Space Frontier Foundation, 11/14/10 (Jack, “Guest column: ‘Envoys of mankind’ deserve benefits of Astronaut Rescue Treaty”, InsideNova.com, http://www2.insidenova.com/news/2010/nov/14/envoys-mankind-deserve-benefits-ar-651129/#fbcomments, accessed 6/30/11) EK Like Nixon, it may be that Congressman Wolf is the more appropriate person to open this door to the future in Chinese-American space relations and to suggest some space détente rescue pact among American, Chinese, Indian and Russian space agencies. Cooperation does not have to be difficult; human spacefaring nations need cooperation on ship-to-ship communication protocols, docking ports, oxygen and water hose sizes, and the like to save the lives of those opting to spaceflight in the decades ahead. The United States need not transfer the designs of our booster rockets, the next spacecraft design or compromise national security technology transfer concerns to accomplish a mutual rescue-in-space plan. The United States need not wait for the siren call of a Titanic-like space mishap to determine if we have measured up to the spirit of international space law. We need not determine the ethnicity of envoys of humanity to determine if they are worthy of a space rescue. Won’t Militarize – Private SectorChina wants cooperation, and US private industry will ensure China doesn’t gain competitive edge from cooperation Hill, Satellite today news editor, 2011 (Jeffery, “Analysts: Musk's Response to Launch Price Doubt Reveals Clues to SpaceX's Business Strategy,” Satellite News, http://www.satellitetoday.com/commercial/launchers/Analysts-Musks-Response-to-Launch-Price-Doubt-Reveals-Clues-to-SpaceXs-Business-Strategy_36735.html, May 11, accessed July 6, 2011, NS) China Great Wall, which functions as the marketing arm of CAST, is currently developing plans to open a Washington D.C. office this summer to promote Chinese space products and solar arrays. China has long hoped to revive bilateral space relations after a U.S. policy shift in 1999 prohibited the United States from trading space-related technology with China. Musk said that Fanpei's statement only validated the United States' advantages over China's space sector. "China has the fastest growing economy in the world. But the American free enterprise system, which allows anyone with a better mouse-trap to compete, is what will ensure that the United States remains the world's greatest superpower of innovation." According to Musk and additional information provided on SpaceX's website, the price of a standard flight on a Falcon 9 rocket is $54 million. The average price of a full-up NASA Dragon cargo mission to the International Space Station is $133 million including inflation, or about $115 million considering the current U.S. dollar value. SpaceX maintains that the company has been profitable every year since 2007, with more than 40 flights on its manifest representing over $3 billion in revenues. "Because SpaceX is so vertically integrated, we know and can control the overwhelming majority of our costs. This is why I am so confident that our performance will increase and our prices will decline over time, as is the case with every other technology," said Musk. "We have a firm, fixed price contract with NASA for 12 missions. This price includes the costs of the Falcon 9 launch, the Dragon spacecraft, all operations, maintenance and overhead, and all of the work required to integrate with the Space Station. If there are cost overruns, SpaceX will cover the difference. This concept may be foreign to some traditional government space contractors that seem to believe that cost overruns should be the responsibility of the taxpayer." [Note: Musk= Space X founder, CTO and CEO] Won’t Militarize – Tech IncompatibleEven if China gets a hold of our technology, they can’t use it Paarlberg, Wellesley College Professor of Political Science, 4 (Robert L, Professor of Political Science at Wellesley College and Associate at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs at Harvard University, “Knowledge as Power: Science, Military Dominance, and U.S. Security,” International Security, 29.1 (2004) 122-151, accessed on 7-8-11, http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/international_security/v029/29.1paarlberg.html, JSkoog) Potential rivals such as China cannot hope to develop an RMA capability through simple transfer, whether by purchase or theft. Through espionage China may have been able to gain information on the W-88 warhead used on U.S. Trident missiles, and China was nearly successful in purchasing from Israel the Phalcon system (which contained modern phased-array technology) before the U.S. government halted this sale in 2000.64 Yet even with access to such imported or stolen technology, the Chinese military system will not be able to advance to an RMA capability, given the notorious weakness of the PLA in areas such as command, control, communications, and intelligence. [End Page 142] Fears that China would steal technology are irrelevant- self-reliance and different standards make theft functionally useless Xiaobing, researcher at China Institute of Contemporary International Relations, 06 (Guo, recently was a visiting scholar at the University of Georgia’s Center for International Trade and Security, ChinaSecurity, “Blockade on China or the United States? U.S. Regulatory Policies on Space Technology Exports to China,” Issue 2, accessed: 6-29-11 http://www.chinasecurity.us/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=249&Itemid=8) TJL The second concern is that China will use trade in the space sector to obtain U.S. ‘technology secrets.’ However, several factors have made this increasingly irrelevant. A guiding principle of China’s space program development is self-reliance and attaining independent intellectual property rights for space technology. China’s achievements in manned space flight and satellite research and development have amply demonstrated its independent R&D prowess. China does not need to rely on U.S. technology to make progress. 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