NC/1NR Solvency #3—China Will Say No

Human Rights AFFIRMATIVE

Vocabulary

Multi-National Corporations (MNCs): A corporation that has factories or offices in a foreign country. For example, a US company that has a factory in China is an MNC. These include Ford, Apple, Nike, and Gap to name a few.

Sullivan Principles/Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR): These are guidelines for MNCs in foreign countries. These rules must be followed if the company or the government makes them law. These rules/principles protect basic workplace rights including discrimination, unionization, pay, environmental, and safety. These can differ from country-to-country and company-to-company but these are Global Sullivan Principles found at http://hrlibrary.umn.edu/links/sullivanprinciples.html

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  Express our support for universal human rights and, particularly, those of our employees, the communities within which we operate, and parties with whom we do business.
  
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  Promote equal opportunity for our employees at all levels of the company with respect to issues such as color, race, gender, age, ethnicity or religious beliefs, and operate without unacceptable worker treatment such as the exploitation of children, physical punishment, female abuse, involuntary servitude, or other forms of abuse.
  
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  Respect our employees' voluntary freedom of association.
  
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  Compensate our employees to enable them to meet at least their basic needs and provide the opportunity to improve their skill and capability in order to raise their social and economic opportunities.
  
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  Provide a safe and healthy workplace; protect human health and the environment; and promote sustainable development.
  
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  Promote fair competition including respect for intellectual and other property rights, and not offer, pay or accept bribes.
  
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  Work with government and communities in which we do business to improve the quality of life in those communities -- their educational, cultural, economic and social well-being -- and seek to provide training and opportunities for workers from disadvantaged backgrounds.
  
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  Promote the application of these principles by those with whom we do business.
  

Tibet: Region in China originally inhabited by Tibetans. Tibetans are a distinct culture from the rest of China and want their independence. China politically, religiously, and physically persecutes the people of Tibet.

Uyghur (Wee-Grr): Ethnic group originally of Turkish descent. Like the Tibetans, they live in China, but are discriminated against because of ethnic difference.

Apartheid: Afrikaans word meaning “separateness”. Apartheid normally refers to the awful racial discrimination in South Africa from the 1940’s to 1990’s. The AFF argues that the Sullivan Principles influenced South Africa to move away from their legal racism.

Xi Jinping (She jin-PING): General Secretary of the Communist Party of China, the President of the People's Republic of China, and the Chairman of China's Central Military Commission. He’s like Obama, but even more powerful since China does not have the same political structure as the US. Essentially, he’s the president of China.

People’s Liberation Army (PLA): The Chinese armed forces. Basically the accumulation of all the Chinese military. It is the largest military in the world.