Tournament: Greenhill RR | Round: 3 | Opponent: Northland Christian LB | Judge: panel
Fink 7-30-21
(Jenni, https://www.newsweek.com/who-warns-world-blind-understanding-covid-spread-hurting-ability-end-pandemic-1614722)
A lack of testing for COVID-19 in parts of the world is preventing
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We can test for it and we can treat it," Ghebreyesus said.
Kumar, PhD, 7-12-21
(Rajeesh, Associate Fellow Manohar Parrikar Institute for Defence Studies and Analysis, https://www.idsa.in/issuebrief/wto-trips-waiver-covid-vaccine-rkumar-120721)
In October 2020, India and South Africa had submitted a proposal to the World
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not expedient in a public health crisis like the COVID-19 pandemic.
Guy R. McPherson, PhD, 20 ~PhD Range Science, Professor Emeritus, University of Arizona School of Natural Resources and Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology~, "Will COVID-19 Trigger Extinction of All Life on Earth?" Eart and Envi Scie Res and Rev, Volume 3 Issue 2, 4-8-2020, https://opastonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/will-covid-19-trigger-extinction-of-all-life-on-earth-eesrr-20-.pdf
Small lives matter. Indeed, the "human body contains about 100 trillion cells
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that a microscopic virus could pull the trigger on our extinction ~15~.
Continued COVID spread causes great power war and is the death knell of the LIO -diversion, nationalism, psychology
Kitfield 20
(James, the only three-time winner of the prestigious Gerald R. Ford Award for Distinguished Reporting on National Defense, https://breakingdefense.com/2020/05/will-covid-19-kill-the-liberal-world-order/, 5-22)
For a brief moment it seemed that the worst global pandemic in a century might
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dangerous period when cooler heads may not prevail among the great power leaders."
Risk of U.S.-China nuclear escalation to total war is high – Chinese planners don’t believe nuclear weapons are usable and US decisionmakers are too confident in limited nuclear war.
Fiona CUNNINGHAM Poli Sci @ GW AND Taylor FRAVEL Arthur and Ruth Sloan Professor of Political Science and Director of the Security Studies Program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology ’19 "Dangerous Confidence? Chinese Views on Nuclear Escalation" International Security 44 (2) p. EBSCO
Chinese views of nuclear escalation are key to assessing the potential for nuclear escalation in
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but it investigates only one of multiple pathways to nuclear escalation.~11~
Cribb 17
(Julian, BA Classics@WesternAusstralia, FoundingEditor@ScienceAlert, Surviving the 21st Century, Springer)
The most publicised horrors of nuclear war, over the past half-century,
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of possible nuclear and chemical terrorism, and their consequences, is lengthening.
COVID vaccine debate will kill the WTO- there are no alternate causes and solvency is reverse causal
Meyer 6-18-21
(David, Senior Writer, https://fortune.com/2021/06/18/wto-covid-vaccines-patents-waiver-south-africa-trips/)
The World Trade Organization knows all about crises. Former U.S. President
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all our ambassadors to the table to negotiate a text," she said.
Shaffer, JD Stanford, 21
(Gregory Shaffer is Chancellor’s Professor at the University of California, Irvine, and author of the forthcoming book, "Emerging Powers in the World Trading System: The Past and Future of International Economic Law." https://thehill.com/opinion/international/559049-the-us-must-engage-with-china-even-when-countering-china, 6-21)
A policy statement heard around the world is that U.S. engagement with
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outcomes, such as to provide vaccines globally and to develop green technologies.
Solís 20 ~Mireya Solís, Director - Center for East Asia Policy Studies Senior Fellow - Foreign Policy, Center for East Asia Policy Studies Philip Knight Chair in Japan Studies. "The post COVID-19 world: Economic nationalism triumphant?," Brookings, 7-10-2020, accessed 9-3-2021, https://www.brookings.edu/blog/order-from-chaos/2020/07/10/the-post-covid-19-world-economic-nationalism-triumphant/~~ HWIC
The damage caused by the worst global health crisis in a century is vast.
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-edged globalization forged by the crucible of geopolitical risk and pandemic disruption.
The WTO is crucial to make global trade equitable and reduce poverty
Narlikar, PhD, 18
(AMRITA NARLIKAR is President of the GIGA German Institute of Global and Area Studies and a professor at the University of Hamburg. https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/2018-03-05/trade-war-poor, 3-5)
Recurrent deadlocks have plagued the Doha negotiations since their launch in 2001, damaging the
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lose for all, but particularly the poorest in developed and rising powers.
Growth and free trade reduce the likelihood of war
Tønnesson ’15 - Stein Tønnesson 15, Research Professor, Peace Research Institute Oslo; Leader of East Asia Peace program, Uppsala University, 2015, "Deterrence, interdependence and Sino–US peace," International Area Studies Review, Vol. 18, No. 3, p. 297-311
Several recent works on China and Sino–US relations have made substantial contributions to
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each other, with a view to obliging Washington or Beijing to intervene.
WTO Communication 20
(Communication from India and South Africa to the WTO Council for Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights. "WAIVER FROM CERTAIN PROVISIONS OF THE TRIPS AGREEMENT FOR THE PREVENTION, CONTAINMENT AND TREATMENT OF COVID-19." 10-02-2020, https://docs.wto.org/dol2fe/Pages/SS/directdoc.aspx?filename=q:/IP/C/W669.pdfandamp;Open=True)
9. There are several reports about intellectual property rights hindering or potentially hindering timely
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TRIPS urgently recommends to the General Council adoption of the annexed decision text.
The plan creates a new goldilocks patent law that exempts pandemics
Lindsey, JD Harvard, 21
(Brink, https://www.brookings.edu/blog/up-front/2021/06/03/why-intellectual-property-and-pandemics-dont-mix/, 6-3)
Waiving patent protections is certainly no panacea. What is needed most urgently is a
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up by blocking competitors and raising prices pushes in the completely wrong direction.
Uncertainty and social contract require governments use util
Gooden, 1995 (Robert, philsopher at the Research School of the Social Sciences, Utilitarianism as Public Philosophy. P. 62-63)
Consider, first, the argument from necessity. Public officials are obliged to make
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proceed to calculate the utility payoffs from adopting each alternative possible general rules.