Tournament: Sunvite | Round: 2 | Opponent: Lake Highland Prep AB | Judge: Eric He
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India DA
India private sector is key to space success – low cost operations, transparency, and accountability.
Rajagopalan ’20 Dr Rajeswari (Raji) Pillai Rajagopalan is the Director of the Centre for Security, Strategy and Technology (CSST) at the Observer Research Foundation, New Delhi., 5-24-2020, "India’s Space Programme: A role for the private sector, finally?," ORF, https://www.orfonline.org/research/indias-space-programme-a-role-for-the-private-sector-finally-66661/ Sachin
India’s finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman announced last week that India’s private sector will play a
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has undertaken promotion, commercialisation and regulatory functions – which is not healthy.
Mining is key – ensures India a seat at the table.
Goswami and Garretson 19 Dr. Namrata, a senior analyst and author. Her work on “Outer Space and Great Powers” was supported by the MINERVA Initiative Grant for Social Science Research, and Peter, Deputy Director of the Schriever Scholars Space Strategy and Policy Program at the Air Command and Staff College), April 16, 2019, “Critical Shifts in India’s Outer Space Policy” https://thediplomat.com/2019/04/critical-shifts-in-indias-outer-space-policy/ Sachin
Responding to what looks to be a global scramble for space resources, India’s elite
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to ensure New Delhi will at least have a seat at the table.
Key to soft power
Hickert 17 Cameron Hickert, Harvard’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Schwarzman Scholars, "Space Rivals: Power and Strategy in the China-India Space Race - Schwarzman Scholars", August 14, 2017, https://www.schwarzmanscholars.org/events-and-news/space-rivals-power-strategy-china-india-space-race/ TDI
The regional rivalry between India and China has long simmered, and the next frontier
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paves the way for increased economic success in a fast-growing industry.
Indo-Pak water conflicts will escalate – India holds vital position to stopping it
Umar, 16 Baba Umar, Kashmiri journalist. The piece is an excerpt of a research paper written during the author’s Chevening South Asia Journalism Programme (SAJP) fellowship in 2016, 6-9-2016, accessed on 8-9-2021, The Diplomat, "Kashmir: A Water War in the Making?", https://thediplomat.com/2016/06/kashmir-a-water-war-in-the-making/ Sachin
Today Pakistan and India are locked in a bitter water conflict. Though diplomatic exertions
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related things … more flooding or there is more encroachment,” he says.
India key to leading in peacekeeping and conflict mediation – means we can withstand and prevent every one of the war impacts in the AC.
GPC 17 (1) (Greater Pacific Capital, investing institution designed to identify and develop investing opportunities in and between India and other international economies), “Path to Power: India’s Great Opportunity in the Changing World Order,” 7/17/17, Greater Pacific Capital, https://greaterpacificcapital.com/path-to-power-indias-great-opportunity-in-the-changing-world-order/ Sachin
Leading in Peacekeeping and Conflict Mediation. India has started to seize the opportunity to
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through the UN or directly as mandated by the terms of the deal.
Also good for climate – means we withstand that as well
GPC 17 (2) (Greater Pacific Capital, investing institution designed to identify and develop investing opportunities in and between India and other international economies), “Path to Power: India’s Great Opportunity in the Changing World Order,” 7/17/17, Greater Pacific Capital, https://greaterpacificcapital.com/path-to-power-indias-great-opportunity-in-the-changing-world-order/ Sachin
Taking up the Climate Change and Alternative Energy Cause. The US withdrawal from the
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ROTB moots 7 minutes of NC content, bad for debate education as it