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And, new cheap oil causes prices to fall rapidly 
Leonard
8/21/06, www.salon.com/tech/htww/2006/08/21/oil_bubble/index.html 

The theory goes like this … the air rushes out.


China DA



A. Uniqueness: China is using its soft power to convince African nations to block Taiwanese entry into the World Health Organization

Brookes and Ju-Yung, Senior Fellow in National Security Affairs and Fellow for Policy Studies, 2k7

[Peter and Chung. “Into Africa: China’s Grab for Influence and Oil” March 26, http://www.heritage.org/Research/Africa/hl1006.cfm]

Across the planet, China is aggressively seeking new friends and allies and proving to be a less demanding alternative to the more scrupulous relationships nations must have with the U.S. and Europe.

One of the places China … Commission on Human Rights. 



And, The US is supporting Taiwan’s bid to join the WHO

Taipei Times 2007 (Apr 21, Charles Snyder http://taiwansecurity.org/TT/2007/TT-210407.htm) 

The eight-page report … observer status at WHA, the report said.  


 

B. Links—

The plan increases US soft power in Africa

IHD 06 (The Institute for Human Dignity, Global Poverty & National Security http://www.truthrising.org/poverty_security.html Accessed 8/14/07) 

The final category, soft power, … out to help the developing world. 



And, Sino-US soft power in Africa is zero-sum.

Thompson – Assistant Director of the Freeman Chair in China Studies at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in DC.– 05

(Drew, “China’s Emerging Interests in Africa: Opportunities and Challenges for Africa and the United States, Holler Africa, Jun 2005, [online] http://www.hollerafrica.com/showArticle.php?artId=156&catId=1, accessed 7/30/07)   



As China’s domestic … security and stability in Africa. 

And, Increasing humanitarian assistance allows the US to control the African voting blocs at the UNGA

Pham 07 (J. Peter, Director of the Nelson Institute for International and Public Affairs at James Madison University. “America in Africa: Securing U.S. Interests and Promoting a Continents Development” http://www.jmu.edu/nelsoninstitute/America_in_Africa.pdf) 

U.S. foreign policy … major states, such as China. 

C. Impacts—

China would interpret Taiwanese entry into the WHO as an attempt to promote independence and lash out

Japan Economic Newswire, 2k7 [China objects to Taiwan's bid to join WHO, April 25, Lexis] 

China believes Taiwan … campaigns in previous years. 

Nuke War

Strait Times 2k (No one gains in war over Taiwan; June 25, lexis) 

The high-intensity scenario … sovereignty above everything else.

Lexington LS – Affirmative – LGBT – At-Large Team





Contention 1: Inherency




Throughout Latin America and Asia the US provides assistance to Gay Lesbian Bisexual and Transgender organizations to prevent AIDS. Yet despite small programs funding is insufficient in Africa

Cary Alan Johnson, Senior Specialist for Africa at the International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission, 2007

(Off the Map: How HIV AIDS Programming is Failing Same-Sex Practicing People in Africa, http://www.iglhrc.org/files/iglhrc/otm/Off%20The%20Map.pdf, p81-83)
In almost every country … men who have sex with men in Ghana.21

This lack of funding actively marginalizes GLBTQ Africans from critical health services

Cary Alan Johnson, Senior Specialist for Africa at the International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission, 2007

(Off the Map: How HIV AIDS Programming is Failing Same-Sex Practicing People in Africa, http://www.iglhrc.org/files/iglhrc/otm/Off%20The%20Map.pdf, p57)
With some notable exceptions, ... pass their STIs on to others.143

Contention 2: A Deadly Silence




American conservative funding policies propagate the belief that there are no African homosexuals

Cary Alan Johnson, Senior Specialist for Africa at the International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission, 2007

(Off the Map: How HIV AIDS Programming is Failing Same-Sex Practicing People in Africa, http://www.iglhrc.org/files/iglhrc/otm/Off%20The%20Map.pdf, p1-3)
With slightly more than … restrictive funding policies of the United States.

This erasure of African homosexuality establishes an African heterosexual AIDS distinct from American Gay AIDS. This splitting of the epidemic allows the west to continue blaming AIDS on Africans and Gays through imperialist myths of hypersexuality and racist origin stories.

Cindy Patton, assistant professor of communications @ Temple University and long time activist in the Lesbian/Gay community, 1993

(The Lesbian and Gay Studies Reader, p127-136, http://books.google.com/books?id=PaNdHqo-9wIC&pg=PA137&lpg=PA137&dq=african+denial+of+homosexuality&source=web&ots=kO_LEaczEw&sig=Fm5G6DsrdiNFUUJ3TGsSZH5--Ro#PPA127,M1)
Current AIDS-control efforts…exorbitant factors

And a genocidal nuclear family model is imposed onto these myths. PATTON 93 (same cite)

In order to … controllable bourgeois family units




This Imperialist location of blame along racial and sexual lines forces violent modes of containment while allowing the underlying cause of disease to go unchallenged. This causes extinction through slate wiping epidemics and the normalization of nuclear weapons, economic oppression, and environmental destruction

Steve Eckhardt, writer for Z Magazine, 1994

http://zena.secureforum.com/Znet/zmag/articles/jan94eckhardt.htm
Today viruses of …And if the prospect of human extermination doesn't pose the need for revolutionary change, what does?



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