Imperialism
A. Uniqueness. Africa is increasing efforts at unification and representation in international organizations
Custers, PhD, ‘06 [Peter, “African Struggles Against Neoliberal Globalization”, September 8,
http://www.petercusters.nl/file/66, accessed 6/30/06]
B. Aid to Africa is a Political Tool That Expands US Imperial Domination
Dembele, Director of the African Forum on Alternatives, ‘05 [Demba Moussa, “Aid Dependence and the MDGs”, September
8, http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/29376, accessed 6/29/07]
C. Imperialism in Africa Perpetuates the AIDS Epidemic
Revolutionary Worker Online ‘00 [“Imperialism and AIDS in Africa”, http://rwor.org/a/v22/1060-69/1065/aids.htm,
accessed 6/26/07]
A. US-South Africa Relations High
Bureau of African Affairs, U.S. Department of State, July ’07, http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/bgn/2898.htm
B. South Africa opposes U.S. unilateral extension of power
Suzanne Daley, Foreign Desk Writer, The New York Times, March ’98, “Clinton in Africa: The Next Stop,” http://www.lexisnexis.com/us/lnacademic/search/homesubmitForm.do, Lexis.
C. US-South Africa relations key to African stability
Eric M. Bost, US Ambassador to South Africa, Insight Africa, March ’07, http://pretoria.usembassy.gov/wwwhamb_bost20070323.html
D. Instability in Sub-Saharan Africa supplies terrorists with resources and networking necessary to obtain nuclear weapons
Dempsey 06 [Thomas Dempsey Director of African Studies in the Department of National Security and Strategy at the U.S. Army War College. “COUNTERTERRORISM IN AFRICAN FAILED STATES: CHALLENGES AND POTENTIAL SOLUTIONS” April 2006 http://www.strategicstudiesinstitute.army.mil/pdffiles/pub649.pdf]
E. Nuclear terrorism leads to extinction
Stephens 07[Rex Stephens, idiot, 5-22-07 “The Preparation” http://www.thepreparation.com/Chap6.html]
Reps K
We present the following criticism:
America’s relationship to Africa is instructed by images of otherness. Our ideological frame of Africa is saturated by representations of conflict, disease, and the permanent affliction of catastrophe and chaos, policymakers can’t help but solidify the dehumanizing frame for intervention these images demand.
WALLACE 5, PHD STUDENT – ANTHROPOLOGY – OXFORD
[JAMIE, “AMERICAN PERCEPTIONS OF AFRICA BASED ON MEDIA REPRESENTATIONS”, 2005, http://www.hollerafrica.com/showArticle.php?artId=101&catId=1]
Our language and representations have real world ramifications. The attachment to images of African catastrophe castigates Africans to a permanent global underclass. Africans become the objects of a genocidal process of dehumanization that’s grounded history’s most extreme atrocities and interventions.
SANKORE 5, EDITOR – INTERNATIONAL FEDERATION OF JOURNALISTS – AFRICA AND COORDINATOR – FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION AND ASSOCIATED RIGHTS IN AFRICA, 2005
[ROTIMI, “The Pitfalls and Consequences of Development 'Pornography'”, http://www.bond.org.uk/networker/2005/april05/opinion.htm]
In order to rethink the function of debate and the current and future methodologies used to deploy assistance in Africa we present th following alternative text: My partner and I advocate the rejection of not only the affirmatives negative representations of Africa.
MEZZANA 5, SOCIOLOGIST AND RESERARCHER – CERFE GROUP AFRICAN RESEARCH, 2005 [DANIELE, “A CANCEROUS IMAGE”, http://www.africansocieties.org/n4/eng/Dossier.htm]
Our criticism is a precondition to assistance. An elevated focus on representation is a prerequisite to any policy discussion in the context of Africa
HAWK 92, EDITOR AND ASST. PROF – POLITICAL SCIENCE – ALABAMA-BIRMINGHAM, 1992 [BEVERLY, Africa’s Media Image, pg. 13]
China DA
A. Chinese stability on the brink – concessions in international relations alleviates foreign pressure
[ASIA MEDIA NEWS DAILY, May 1, 2007, http://www.asiamedia.ucla.edu/article-eastasia.asp?parentid=68978]
B. U.S. aid programs in Africa are signs of political warfare—U.S. outpaces China in Africa
[Donovan Chau, Adjunct Faculty member and member of the University graduate faculty in the
Department of Defense and Strategic Studies, Missouri State University POLITICAL WARFARE IN SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA, March 2007, http://www.strategicstudiesinstitute.army.mil/pdffiles/pub766.pdf]
C. Impact:
1. Foreign pressure means overthrow of the regime
[Susan Shirk, served as deputy assistant secretary for China at the U.S. State Department from 1997 to 2000.CHINA: FRAGILE SUPERPOWER, 2007, p. 62]
2. Regime collapse kills billions—CCP fights to keep political power in China
The Epoch Times ‘05
[8/3/05 http://www.theepochtimes.com/news/5-8-3/30931.html]
First, both China and the US are increasing aid to Africa, however this aid is not coordinated
Gill, Huang & Morrison. 2k7. Bates, Freeman Chair in China Studies at CSIS. Chin-Hao, research assistant with the Freeman Chair. J. Stephen, director of the Africa Program at CSIS. “Assessing China’s Growing Influence in Africa” China Security, Vol. 3, No. 3. http://yaleglobal.yale.edu/about/pdfs/china-africa.pdf
For the United States, .., systematic or substantive reference to the other.
Chinese medical assistance is limited because of price constraints
Shinn. 2006. David Shinn, Adjunct Professor of International Affairs at George Washington University. “An Out of the Box Idea: China, Africa, and the United States Health Care Cooperation” Washington Journal of Modern China, Spring/Summer, 2006
China’s capacity to send large numbers of … to different governments, industries, and enterprises.
Advantage 1: Taiwan
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