Disease Surveillance Bush Bad 2AC Plan unpopular – Congress wants money for local disease response, nothing else – they’re already pissed
Brewin 5 (Bob, “Bush calls for $7.1B to prepare for bird flu,” http://www.govhealthit.com/article91280-11-01-05-Web)
the president’s call for an… crucial areas of daily life.”
CDC spending is unpopular—recent budget cuts because of inefficiencies prove
Matus 7 (Kate, “Ryan Wins Overwhelming Bipartisan Support to Stop Wasteful CDC Spending: House Approves Amendment to Prevent Squandering Funds on Luxuries and Unnecessary Programs,” July http://www.house.gov/ryan/press_releases/2007pressreleases/71907CDC.htm)
The House of Representatives approved ...from its core mission
Disease surveillance is used to criticize the administration, pissing off Republicans and creating partisan bickering that kills the agenda
UPI 5 (Todd Zwillich, “Democrats back bird flu spending boost,” Lexis)
Senate Democrats proposed $8 billion ...conference with the House
Bush is cutting back on the CDC budget—the plan would be a flip flop
PR Newswire 7 2-5-07 (“Cuts Proposed in the President's Budget to Disease Prevention and Bioterrorism Preparedness Programs Jeopardize the Health of Americans, TFAH Warns,” l/n)
cuts proposed in the Administration's ...preparedness funding level in FY 2005.
Plan would hurt Bush- it would look his Avian Preparedness plan has been circumvented
CNN Health News 5 (“Bush unveils $7.1 billion plan to prepare for flu pandemic”)
The administration's plan provides funding ...antiviral drugs -- such as Tamiflu
Groves BG – Negative
LOST:
BUSH’S POLITICAL CAPITAL IS KEY TO PASSAGE OF LOST.
KRAUS 7. [DON, VP FOR GOV’T RELATIONS OF CITIZENS FOR GLOBAL SOLUTIONS, “TIME TO RATIFY THE LAW OF THE SEA” FPIF, http://www.fpif.org/fpiftxt/4286 JUNE 6]
Although the current… the 67 needed for accession.
CONSERVATIVE SUPPORT IS CRUCIAL TO THE PASSAGE OF LOST – GOP UNITY IS KEY.
KINKAID 10-25 [CLIFF, Editor of Accuracy in Media American Daily http://www.americandaily.com/article/20708]
Since a treaty requires 67… media as a foreign policy expert.
LOST IS KEY TO PROTECT THE OCEAN ECOSYSTEM.
Bauerlein 95 (Patricia, J.D. candidate Loyola Law School, 17 Loy. L.A. Int'l & Comp. L.J. 899)
The health of the planet… with other nation-states.
The protection of marine biodiversity is necessary to avert planetary disaster
Norse 93 (Elliott, Ed. Global Marine Biological Diversity, Chief Scientist – Center for Marine Conservation, p. xvii-xix)
As the 20th century ends… follow a different path to the same fate.
RATIFICATION OF LOST IS CRUCIAL TO NAVAL MOBILITY AND POWER PROJECTION – PREFER OUR EVIDENCE BECAUSE IT COMES FROM A NAVAL EXPERT.
Clark 7. [Vernon, Former Chief of Naval Operations U.S. Navy, Congressional Quarterly 10-4 lexis]
The Law of the Sea Convention supports our ability to operate… today, and realize our vision for the future.
POWER PROJECTION IS KEY HEG AND PREVENTION OF WMD EXCHANGE
Daniel Goure, defense analyst @ Lexington Institute, 8/2003 (A Key to US Naval Power in the 21st Century. www.lexingtoninstitute.org/docs/602.pdf
These new threats pose new challenges… does not employ any WMD.
GLOBAL NUCLEAR EXCHANGE
Khalizad, 1995
LOST KEY TO SOLVE SOFT POWER
Eagleburger and Moore 7. [Lawrence, Former Sec of State, John, Dir. of the Center for Oceans Law & Policy @ UVA, US Ambassador for the LOS Convention, Reagan appointee to the NOAA, Washington Post 7-30 lexis]
Today the convention is in force for 154 nations,… sends a signal of American isolationism.
LOST IS KEY TO SET UP MARITIME JURSIDICTION FRAMEWORK WHICH IS CRUCIAL TO A PEACEFUL RESOLUTION OF THE SPRATLYS ISLAND DISPUTE.
Contemporary South-East Asia, 01. [ August 1st, 2001]
Developments in the global complex of rules that… mutual social obligations of the South China Sea states
SPRATLYS CONFLICT GOES NUCLEAR.
Nikkei Weekly, 95. [Japan, July 3rd, 1995]
Mahathir sees Asia developing in three possible… full-scale, even nuclear, war.
WHO:
Text: The World Health Organization should…
WHO ACTION CATALYZES INTERNATIONAL HEALTH COOPERATION ON ISSUES OF PUBLIC HEALTH – ITS AGENDA SETTING CAPABILITIES MAKE IT THE BEST AGENT FOR ACTION.
Taylor 4 (Allyn L., University of Maryland School of Law, Governing the Globalization of Public Health, Published in the Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics, v. 32, no. 3, Fall 2004, http://digitalcommons.law.umaryland.edu/fac_pubs/58/)
WHO can catalyze more effective and… coordi¬nated and rational development of the legal regime.
China Oil:
China’s aid functions as leverage to secure African influence over the West
Joshua Kurlantzik fellow at the USC School of Public Diplomacy and the Pacific Council on International Policy, “Into Africa,” Boston Globe 6/3/07 http://www.boston.com/news/globe/ideas/articles/2007/06/03/into_africa?mode=PF
China's aid programs have been critical… Huning of the Central Committee's Policy Research Office.
China relies on U.S. aid absence to broker deals with the Sub-Saharan
Phillip C. Saunders Senior Research Fellow in the Institute for National Strategic Studies at the National Defense University “China’s Global Activism: Strategy, Drivers, and Tools” 2006
China’s increased global activism and influence poses… would otherwise be consid- ered low priorities.
Specifically this leverage secures Chinese oil imports
Drew Thompson researcher at the Freeman Chair in China Studies, Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, DC “Economic growth and soft power: China's Africa strategy 2005 http://www.asianresearch.org/articles/2438.html
China's rapidly growing demand for imported… with less competition from multinational firms.
Africa is vital to Chinese energy security
Malaquias, Associate professor of government St. Lawrence University, 9/22/2006
[Assis, “Thirsty Powers: The United States, China, and Africa’s Energy Resources” http://www.ipri.pt/eventos/pdf/FLAD05_AMalaquias.pdf
Thus far, the US has been able to maintain a dominant… thus achieve greater energy security.
Oil insecurity spurs Chinese lash out in the South China Sea
Ronald Soligio, and Amy Jaffe, February 11, 2004, Prof. of Economics at Rice and Senior Energy Analyst at James Baker III Inst. For Public Policy, “China and Long-range Asia Energy Security: An Analysis of the Political, Economic and Technological Factors Shaping Asian Energy Markets”, http://www.rice.edu/energy/publications/docs/AsianEnergySecurity_ChinaGrowingEnergyDependence.pdf
China’s rising oil import requirements and the… rivalry could emerge during a time of crisis
Chinese aggression in the South China Sea sparks a war
Cossa, Executive Director of the Pacific Forum of the CSIS, 19 98
(Ralph, "Security Implications of Conflict in the South China Sea: Exploring Potential Triggers of Conflict," http://www.southchinasea.org/docs/Cossa,%20Security%20Implications%20of%20%20Conflict%20in%20the%20S.ChinaSea.pdf)
Implications for Sino-U.S. Relations… to a "one China" policy.
Extinction
Toshimaru Ogura and Ingyu Oh Teachers – Economics, Monthly Review, April 1997
North Korea, South Korea, and Japan have.. into a global conflagration.
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