phone number (pls only use if I'm not responding) - 650-823-7620
Harvard Westlake
1
Opponent: NorChr LB | Judge: Park, Felicity
ac - china nc - nebel xi da case ar - all nr - da case ar - all
Harvard Westlake
4
Opponent: Peninsula KN | Judge: Nguyen, Vanessa
ac - asteroid mining (debris africa) nc - russian legitimacy da nasa funding da case ar - all nr - Russian legitimacy da ar -
Harvard Westlake
6
Opponent: Marlborough PS | Judge: Quisenberry, Jack
ac - global commons nc - regulations cp mining da innovation da case ar - all nr - mining da innovation dacase ar - all
Jack Howe Long Beach
3
Opponent: Silver Creek KZ | Judge: Krause, Lukas
ac - whole rez (hr fwk) nc - fwk innovation da infrastructure cp 1ar - all nr - all 2ar - all
Long Beach Jack Howe
1
Opponent: Nashua HS | Judge: Nguyen, Vanessa
1ac - covid 1nc - infrastructure cp innovation da case 1ar - all 1nr - all 2ar - all
St Marks
2
Opponent: Southlake Carrol EP | Judge: Johnson, Dillon
ac - cannabis nc - t-reduce mexcio pic cartel da case ar - all nr - mexico pic cartel da case ar - all
St Marks
3
Opponent: Immaculate Heart AW | Judge: Hsu, Jonathan
ac - CRISPR nc - t-no spec cap-k case ar - all nr - cap case ar - cap case
St Marks
5
Opponent: Loyola CM | Judge: Krauss, Gordon
ac - vaccine inequality terror nc - innovation da manufacturing cp case 1ar - all nr - all 2ar - all
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9/18/21
Infrastructure CP
Tournament: Long Beach Jack Howe | Round: 1 | Opponent: Nashua HS | Judge: Nguyen, Vanessa
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====International donors should allocate 30 of vertical disease funding towards infrastructure in developing nations.====
====Disease specific funding causes budget imbalances and inequity in treatment. Using that funding to improve primary health care is key to non-HIV diseases and pandemics.==== De Maeseneer et al. '20 (Jan De Maeseneer is the Head of the Department of Family Medicine and Primary Health Care of Ghent University. He is also the Director of the International Centre for Primary Health Care and Family Medicine; Jan De Maeseneer, Donald Li, Bjorg Palsdottir, November 2020, "Universal health coverage and primary health care: the 30 by 2030 campaign," Bulletin of the World Health Organization, https://www.researchgate.net/publication/345938887_Universal_health_coverage_and_primary_health_care_the_30_by_2030_campaign**)** The World Health Organization (WHO) considers primary health care a cornerstone of universal AND advocate for the 30 by 2030 campaign (www.30by2030.net).
====Current programs are inadequate in improving access; without strong infrastructure, HIV patients die from easily preventable infections, and ART drugs are leaked, creating resistant strains.==== Buve et al. '03 (Anne Buve, Sam Kalibala and James McIntyre from Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium; The Population Council, Nairobi, Kenya; and Perinatal HIV Research Unit, University of the Wltwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa; Anne Buve, Sam Kalibala, James McIntyre, 2003, "Stronger health systems for more effective HIV/AIDS prevention and care," Int J Health Plann Mgmt, https://sci-hub.se/10.1002/hpm.725)** In some middle income countries with HIV epidemics of moderate severity, such as Brazil AND strengthening laboratories; and setting up systems to counsel patients and ensure compliance.
Independently, medical infrastructure is a prerequisite to the use of IP flexibilities like compulsory licensing in improving access.
Halaijan 13 Dina Halaijan (JD, Brooklyn Law School). "Inadequacy of TRIPS and the Compulsory License: Why Broad Compulsory Licensing is Not a Viable Solution to the Access Medicine Problem." Brooklyn Journal of International Law. Volume 38, Issue 3, Article 7 (2013). JDN. https://brooklynworks.brooklaw.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1050andcontext=bjil 4. Limitations Inherent in Developing Countries Another impediment to the successful use of AND time the ~Viagra~ compulsory license was issued ~in Egypt~."13
9/18/21
Innovation DA
Tournament: Long Beach Jack Howe | Round: 1 | Opponent: Nashua HS | Judge: Nguyen, Vanessa
2
Pharmaceutical innovation is accelerating now – new medicines are substantially better than existing treatments.
Wills, MBA, and Lipkus, PhD, 20 – Todd J. Wills ~Managing Director @ Chemical Abstracts Service, MBA from THE Ohio State University~ and Alan H. Lipkus ~Senior Data Analyst @ Chemical Abstracts Service, PhD Physical Chemistry from the University of Rochester~, "Structural Approach to Assessing the Innovativeness of New Drugs Finds Accelerating Rate of Innovation," ACS Medicinal Chemistry Letters, Vol. 11, 2020, https://pubs.acs.org/doi/pdf/10.1021/acsmedchemlett.0c00319 C.VC Despite recent concerns over an innovation crisis, this analysis shows pharmaceutical innovation has actually AND never been used as the basis for a molecule) to further explore.
The biopharmaceutical industry is uniquely reliant on IP protections – undermining them would kill innovation by making an already expensive process completely unfeasible.
Kristina M. Lybecker, PhD, 17 ~PhD Economics, Associate Professor of Economics @ Colorado College~, "Intellectual Property Rights Protection and the Biopharmaceutical Industry: How Canada Measures Up," Fraser Institute, January 2017, https://www.fraserinstitute.org/sites/default/files/intellectual-property-rights-protection-and-the20biopharmaceutical-industry.pdf C.VC The unique structure of the innovative biopharmaceutical industry necessitates a variety of intellectual property protection AND shaping the biopharmaceutical industry, its profitability, productivity, and innovative future.
Pharmaceutical innovation is key to protecting against future pandemics, bioterrorism, and antibiotic resistance.
Marjanovic and Fejiao '20 Marjanovic, Sonja, and Carolina Feijao. Sonja Marjanovic, Ph.D., Judge Business School, University of Cambridge. Carolina Feijao, Ph.D. in biochemistry, University of Cambridge; M.Sc. in quantitive biology, Imperial College London; B.Sc. in biology, University of Lisbon. "Pharmaceutical Innovation for Infectious Disease Management: From Troubleshooting to Sustainable Models of Engagement." (2020). ~Quality Control~ As key actors in the healthcare innovation landscape, pharmaceutical and life sci-ences AND health threats to an even greater extent under improved innova-tion conditions.
Bioterrorism and future pandemics cause extinction.
Hamish De Bretton-Gordon, CBRN Expert @ British Army, 20 ~Director @ DBG Defense, Consultant on CBRN and Biosecurity~, "Biosecurity in the Wake of COVID-19: The Urgent Action Needed," Combatting Terrorism Center Sentinel, November/December 2020, Volume 13, Issue 11, https://ctc.usma.edu/biosecurity-in-the-wake-of-covid-19-the-urgent-action-needed/ C.VC Policymakers around the world did not grasp just how large the impact of a bio AND forward, there should no higher priority for the international community than biosecurity.
9/18/21
JF Innovation DA
Tournament: Harvard Westlake | Round: 6 | Opponent: Marlborough PS | Judge: Quisenberry, Jack Strong commercial space catalyzes tech innovation – progress at the margins and spinoff tech change global information networks Joshua Hampson 2017, Security Studies Fellow at the Niskanen Center, 1-25-2017, “The Future of Space Commercialization”, Niskanen Center, https://republicans-science.house.gov/sites/republicans.science.house.gov/files/documents/TheFutureofSpaceCommercializationFinal.pdf Innovation is generally hard to predict; some new technologies seem to come out of nowhere and others only take off when paired with a new application. It is difficult to predict the future, but it is reasonable to expect that a growing space economy would open opportunities for technological and organizational innovation AND These innovations, changes to global networks, and new opportunities could lead to wider economic growth. Tech innovation solves every existential threat – cumulative extinction events outweigh the aff Dylan Matthews 18. Co-founder of Vox, citing Nick Beckstead @ Rutgers University. 10-26-2018. "How to help people millions of years from now." Vox. https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2018/10/26/18023366/far-future-effective-altruism-existential-risk-doing-good If you care about improving human lives, you should overwhelmingly care about those quadrillions of lives rather than the comparatively small number of people alive today. AND If the far future is what matters, and generally trying to make the world work better is among the best ways to help the far future, then effective altruism just becomes plain ol’ do-goodery.*
1/16/22
JF Mining DA
Tournament: Harvard Westlake | Round: 6 | Opponent: Marlborough PS | Judge: Quisenberry, Jack Commercial asteroid mining is coming now – lower costs and improving tech make it economically viable – and the legal basis is already in place in multiple countries– that helps acquire water for rocket fuel and rare earth metals Gilbert, PhD student in space resources at the Colorado School of Mines, writes in 21 alex gilbert, is a complex systems researcher and a PhD student in space resources at the Colorado School of Mines. "Mining in Space Is Coming." Milken Institute Review, April 26, 2021, www.milkenreview.org/articles/mining-in-space-is-coming. Quality Control Space exploration is back. after decades of disappointment, a combination of better technology, falling costs and a rush of competitive energy from the private sector has put space travel front and center AND And they loom as bottlenecks in making the transition from fossil fuels to renewables backed up by battery storage. However, the legal framework that strikes the best balance of providing economic incentives for mining while preventing unbeneficial land claims requires a doctrine of appropriation – the plan prevents that Meyers 15 Meyers, Ross. J.D. candidate at the University of Oregon Law School. "The doctrine of appropriation and asteroid mining: incentivizing the private exploration and development of outer space." Or. Rev. Int'l L. 17 (2015): 183. Italics in original. Quality Control The doctrine of appropriation is a reasonable rule for adjudicating asteroid claims, and it could easily be modified to apply to asteroid mining AND The doctrine of appropriation helped drive American westward expansion, and its application to space mining would help drive the human race in its expansion into the space, the final frontier. Asteroid mining offsets terrestrial growth that ruins the environment and enables solar power satellites – both solve climate change Taylor 19 Chris Taylor is a veteran journalist. Previously senior news writer for Time.com a year later. In 2000, he was named San Francisco bureau chief for Time magazine. He has served as senior editor for Business 2.0, West Coast editor for Fortune Small Business and West Coast web editor for Fast Company. Chris is a graduate of Merton College, Oxford and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. "How asteroid mining will save the Earth — and mint trillionaires." Mashable, 2019, mashable.com/feature/asteroid-mining-space-economy. Quality Control The mission is essential, Joyce declares, to save Earth from its major problems. First of all, the fictional billionaire wheels in a fictional Nobel economist to demonstrate the actual truth that the entire global economy is sitting on a mountain of debt AND That’s something else we’re still grasping, how relatively easy it is to ship stuff in zero-G environments.
Warming leads to extinction Flournoy 12 – Citing Feng Hsu, PhdD NASA Scientist @ the Goddard Space Flight Center, Don FLournoy, PhD and MA from UT, former Dean of the University College @ Ohio University, former Associate Dean at SUNY and Case Institute of Technology, Former Manager for Unviersity/Industry Experiments for the NASA ACTS Satellite, currently Professor of Telecommunications @ Scripps College of Communications, Ohio University, “Solar Power Satellites,” January 2012, Springer Briefs in Space Development, p. 10-11 In the Online Journal of Space Communication , Dr. Feng Hsu, a NASA scientist at Goddard Space Flight Center, a research center in the forefront of science of space and Earth, writes, “The evidence of global warming is alarming,” noting the potential for a catastrophic planetary climate change is real and troubling (Hsu 2010 AND . “This,” he writes, “is because the risks of a catastrophic anthropogenic climate change can be potentially the extinction of human species, a risk that is simply too high for us to take any chances” (Hsu 2010 )
Space’s lack of inhabitants and ecological problems solves the vast majority of their criticism – but it segregates the capitalists from ruining Earth and generates enough resources to make the planet’s surface into a Communist utopia Taylor 19 Chris Taylor is a veteran journalist. Previously senior news writer for Time.com a year later. In 2000, he was named San Francisco bureau chief for Time magazine. He has served as senior editor for Business 2.0, West Coast editor for Fortune Small Business and West Coast web editor for Fast Company. Chris is a graduate of Merton College, Oxford and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. "How asteroid mining will save the Earth — and mint trillionaires." Mashable, 2019, mashable.com/feature/asteroid-mining-space-economy. Quality Control All in all, it’s starting to sound a damn sight more beneficial to the human race than the internet economy is. AND And because they’re up there making all the wealth on their commodities market, we down here on Earth can certainly afford to focus less on growing our stock market. Maybe even, whisper it low, we can afford a fully functioning social safety net, plus free healthcare and free education for everyone on the planet.
1/16/22
JF Nasa Funding DA
Tournament: Harvard Westlake | Round: 4 | Opponent: Peninsula KN | Judge: Nguyen, Vanessa NASA is preserving resources by leveraging private partnerships Miriam Kramer 21, author of Space, “NASA's plans for the future hinge on the success of private companies,” Axios, 12-7-2021, https://www.axios.com/nasa-private-spaceflight-plans-5a5710e6-5223-4da3-8c5d-5a712e1d862e.html The private space players who will drive NASA's plans for the coming decade are declaring themselves and defining the stakes. AND What's happening: Last week, NASA announced it would award multimillion-dollar contracts to three teams of commercial space companies to start designing and building privately operated space stations.
Plan forces spending trade-offs that crush effective Earth sciences --- risks catastrophic climate change Haymet 7 (Tony, Director of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography – University of California, San Diego, Mark Abbott, Dean of the College of Oceanic and Atmospheric Science – Oregon State University, and Jim Luyten, Acting Director – Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, “The Planet NASA Needs to Explore”, Washington Post, 5-10, http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/05/09/AR2007050902451.html) Decades ago, a shift in NASA priorities sidelined progress in human space exploration. As momentum gathers to reinvigorate human space missions to the moon and Mars, we risk hurting ourselves, and Earth, in the long run. Our planet -- not the moon or Mars -- is under significant threat from the consequences of rapid climate change. Yet the changing NASA priorities will threaten exploration here at home. AND But we can't afford to be so starry-eyed that we overlook our own planet.
Warming is inevitable but adjusting government policy can address the worst effects – specifically, for sea level rise. US responses are modeled globally. Economist 17, "How government policy exacerbates hurricanes like Harvey," Economist, https://www.economist.com/news/leaders/21727898-if-global-warming-were-not-enough-threat-poor-planning-and-unwise-subsidies-make-floods THE extent of the devastation will become clear only when the floodwater recedes, leaving ruined cars, filthy mud-choked houses and the bloated corpses of the drowned. But as we went to press, with the rain pounding South Texas for the sixth day, Hurricane Harvey had already set records as America’s most severe deluge (see Briefing AND But politicians and officials who fail the test need to realise that, sooner or later, they will wake up to a Hurricane Harvey of their own.
The impact’s global war Eric Holthaus 15, editor at rollingstone magazine citing James Hansen, former NASA climatologist, "The Point of No Return: Climate Change Nightmares Are Here," Rolling Stone, accessed 10-23-2016, http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/the-point-of-no-return-climate-change-nightmares-are-already-here-20150805 On July 20th, James Hansen, the former NASA climatologist who brought climate change to the public's attention in the summer of 1988, issued a bombshell AND Social disruption and economic consequences of such large sea-level rise could be devastating. It is not difficult to imagine that conflicts arising from forced migrations and economic collapse might make the planet ungovernable, threatening the fabric of civilization."
1/16/22
JF Nebel T
Tournament: Harvard Westlake | Round: 1 | Opponent: NorChr LB | Judge: Park, Felicity Interpretation: “Private entities” is a generic bare plural. The aff may not defend that a subset of nations ban the appropriation of outer space. Nebel 19. Jake Nebel is an assistant professor of philosophy at the University of Southern California and executive director of Victory Briefs. “Genericity on the Standardized Tests Resolution.” Vbriefly. August 12, 2019. https://www.vbriefly.com/2019/08/12/genericity-on-the-standardized-tests-resolution/?fbclid=IwAR0hUkKdDzHWrNeqEVI7m59pwsnmqLl490n4uRLQTe7bWmWDO_avWCNzi14 TG Both distinctions are important. Generic resolutions can’t be affirmed by specifying particular instances. AND (Note that this test doesn’t require there to be no change of meaning and doesn’t have to work for every adverb of quantification.) This strongly suggests what we already know: that “colleges and universities” is generic rather than existential in the resolution. Precision o/w – anything else justifies the aff arbitrarily jettisoning words in the resolution at their whim which decks negative ground and preparation because the aff is no longer bounded by the resolution. Violation – They specified China Standards: Limits and ground – their model allows affs to defend any combination of private entities in any countries which explodes negative burden and causes random affs every tournament Drop the debater:– we can’t restart the round from the 1AC and I’m skewed for the rest of the debate.
1/15/22
JF Regulations CP
Tournament: Harvard Westlake | Round: 6 | Opponent: Marlborough PS | Judge: Quisenberry, Jack Counterplan: States should create and adopt a new set of flexible regulations concerning responsible space colonization through the UN Office of Outer Space Affairs, focused on issues of governance of space colonies and potential existential risks, including but not limited to revising treaties to allow for private outer space appropriation with taxation paid to the United Nations to be used for redistributive efforts. Current government issues to resolve colony governance are insufficient – as is the OST – but new flexible regulations solve Kovic 21 Kovic, Marko. PhD Communication and Media Studies, University of Zurich. "Risks of space colonization." Futures 126 (2021): 102638. Quality Control Overall, it seems fair to say that space governance is in shambles today. Creating any kind of meaningful space colonization-related governance in such a policy and policymaking environment is difficult, to say the least. AND The philosophical timescale of such a governance project thousands tomillions of years, but the practical timescale for achieving results should be decades. Those specific reforms are necessary to encourage space colonization and humanitarian economics– but avoids all terrestrial downsides Iliopoulos and Esteban 20 Iliopoulos, Nikolaos University of Tokyo, and Miguel Esteban Waseda University. "Sustainable space exploration and its relevance to the privatization of space ventures." Acta Astronautica 167 (2020): 85-92. Quality Control The envisioned legal regime to encourage private firms to undertake the high risk and high cost involved in activities of space exploration would have to explicitly recognize extra-terrestrial property claims of individuals and corporations that meet specified conditions AND Finally, one way that such privatization efforts could be seen to benefit of mankind as a whole is that any taxation resulting from it should be paid directly to the United Nations, or that at least some fraction of the profits should fund this organization. Redistributive economic policy by international institutions solves income inequality Qureshi 20 Qureshi, Zia, visiting fellow in the Global Economy and Development program at the Brookings Institution. He holds a D.Phil. in economics from Oxford University, where he was a Rhodes Scholar. "Tackling the inequality pandemic: Is there a cure?" Brookings, 17 Nov. 2020, www.brookings.edu/research/tackling-the-inequality-pandemic-is-there-a-cure. Quality Control AND But there is a much broader policy agenda of “predistribution” that can make the growth process itself more inclusive.7
1/16/22
JF Russian Legitimacy DA
Tournament: Harvard Westlake | Round: 4 | Opponent: Peninsula KN | Judge: Nguyen, Vanessa Russia’s international ambitions are low now due to space sector failures. AFP 19 AFP 5/28/19 (Agence France-Presse - international news agency headquartered in Paris, “Moscow, we have a problem: theft plagues Russia’s space sector,” https://www.scmp.com/news/world/russia-central-asia/article/3012088/moscow-we-have-problem-theft-plagues-russias-space) With millions of dollars missing and officials in prison or fleeing the country, Russia’s space sector is at the heart of a staggering embezzlement scheme that has dampened ambitions of recovering its Soviet-era greatness. AND . It symbolises its renewed pride and ability to be a major global power, especially in the context of increased tensions with the United States. Space cooperation with the U.S. boosts Russia’s diplomatic leverage and international prestige Juul 19 (Peter - senior policy analyst at the Center for American Progress, “Trump’s Space Force Gets the Final Frontier All Wrong,” 3/20/19, https://foreignpolicy.com/2019/03/20/trumps-space-force-gets-the-final-frontier-all-wrong/) But funding isn’t everything, and in the new geopolitical context, democracy must be seen to work effectively. AND allows them to poach unearned international prestige by working on goals set and largely carried out by the United States. In today’s world, there’s no reason for the United States to give Russia or China this sort of standing by association. Increased international prestige lays the foundation for Russian territorial expansion and foreign policy aggression Gurganus 19 (Julia - nonresident scholar with the Russia and Eurasia Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and Eugene Rumer - senior fellow and the director of Carnegie’s Russia and Eurasia Program, “Russia’s Global Ambitions in Perspective,” 2/20/19, https://carnegieendowment.org/2019/02/20/russia-s-global-ambitions-in-perspective-pub-78067) . Elsewhere, long-term conflicts, such as those in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Libya, or the unfinished business of post-conflict reconstruction, such as in the Balkans, have presented Russia with opportunities to insert itself and create new facts on the ground AND Information operations, propaganda and disinformation, cyber operations, trade embargoes, and a vast array of other tools have been integrated into what has become commonly known as hybrid warfare. The current policy discussions in Western capitals often create the impression that Moscow has come up with a fundamentally new toolkit. In reality, an extensive reliance on such tools has long been a feature of Russian domestic politics and foreign policy. Russian territorial expansion causes nuclear war with the U.S. and NATO O’Hanlon 19 (Michael – PhD from Princeton in Public and International Affairs and currently a senior fellow at the Brookings Institute, “The Senkaku Paradox: Risking Great Power War Over Small Stakes,” p. 34-37, 4/30/19, Dartmouth Libraries) As such, the United States and NATO partners would undoubtedly feel intense pressure, at the first sign of visible preparations for attack by Russia, to disable Russia’s surveillance and command and control capabilities and to preempt any missiles or aircraft or submarines before they could get within range of the target AND Nuclear brinkmanship over a limited-war scenario in eastern Europe would not be unthinkable, based on what we know of history and human nature. And if nuclear weapons were ever used, even in small numbers at first, all bets are off as to where and how the conflict would end.
1/16/22
JF Xi DA
Tournament: Harvard Westlake | Round: 1 | Opponent: NorChr LB | Judge: Park, Felicity Xi’s regime is stable now, but its success depends on strong growth and private sector development. Mitter and Johnson 21 Rana Mitter and Elsbeth Johnson, Rana Mitter is a professor of the history and politics of modern China at Oxford. Elsbeth Johnson, formerly the strategy director for Prudential PLC’s Asian business, is a senior lecturer at MIT’s Sloan School of Management and the founder of SystemShift, a consulting firm. May-June 2021, "What the West Gets Wrong About China," Harvard Business Review, https://hbr.org/2021/05/what-the-west-gets-wrong-about-china accessed 12/14/21 Adam In China, however, growth has come in the context of stable communist rule, suggesting that democracy and growth are not inevitably mutually dependent. AND . A young student in Nanjing can study propulsion physics at Beijing’s Tsinghua University thanks to social mobility and the party’s significant investment in scientific research.
Cross apply 1AC Patel – it proves that the private sector is seen as key to ccp legitimacy Shifts in regime perception threatens CCP’s legitimacy from nationalist hardliners Weiss 19 Jessica Weiss 1-29-2019 “Authoritarian Audiences, Rhetoric, and Propaganda in International Crises: Evidence from China” http://www.jessicachenweiss.com/uploads/3/0/6/3/30636001/19-01-24-elite-statements-isq-ca.pdf (Associate Professor of Government at Cornell University)Elmer Public support—or the appearance of it—matters to many autocracies. As Ithiel de Sola Pool writes, modern dictatorships are “highly conscious of public opinion and make major efforts to affect it.”6 Mao Zedong told his comrades AND “History and reality have shown us that public opinion and regime safety are inseparable.”10 One Chinese scholar even claimed: “the Chinese government probably knows the public’s opinion better and reacts to it more directly than even the U.S. government.”11 Xi will launch diversionary war to domestic backlash – escalates in multiple hotspots and causes nuclear war Norris 17, William J. Geostrategic Implications of China’s Twin Economic Challenges. CFR Discussion Paper, 2017. (Associate professor of Chinese foreign and security policy at Texas AandM University’s Bush School of Government and Public Service)Elmer Populist pressures might tempt the party leadership to encourage diversionary nationalism. The logic of this concern is straightforward: the Communist Party might seek to distract a restless domestic population with adventurism abroad.19 The Xi administration wants to appear tough in its defense of foreign encroachments against China’s interests. AND . China could still rely on imported goods, but their centrality to the country’s overall economic growth would be altered. Imports of luxury goods, consumer products, international brands, and services may not exert a significant constraining influence, since loss of access to such items may not be seen as strategically vital. If these flows were interrupted or jeopardized, the result would be more akin to an inconvenience than a strategic setback for China’s rise. That said, China is likely to continue to highly depend on imported oil even if the economic end to which that energy resource is directed shifts away from industrial and export production toward domestic consumption.
1/15/22
SeptOct Cap K
Tournament: St Marks | Round: 3 | Opponent: Immaculate Heart AW | Judge: Hsu, Jonathan
Regulating intellectual property participates in a scarcity logic that re-affirms a broader market ownership over information – that consolidates neoliberal control through a shift to private protections, even if the individual act of the aff is good
Soderberg 1 ~Johan, BA from Falmouth College of the Arts. "Copyleft vs Copyright: A Marxist Critique" https://firstmonday.org/article/view/938/860~~ "The contradiction that lies at the heart of the political economy of intellectual property AND 32~. It is predominantly this struggle that I now will attend to.
Capitalism is quickly reaching its ecological, structural, and psychological limits and causes near-term extinction – laundry list.
Robinson 16 (William, Professor of sociology, global studies and Latin American studies at the University of California at Santa Barbara. His most recent book is Global Capitalism and the Crisis of Humanity. | "Sadistic Capitalism: Six Urgent Matters for Humanity in Global Crisis" in Truth-out, April 12, 2016. http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/35596-sadistic-capitalism-six-urgent-matters-for-humanity-in-global-crisis )tbrooks The "luxury shanty town" in South Africa is a fitting metaphor for global AND financial system, despite a series of emergency summits to discuss such regulation.
The alternative is to engage in anticapitalism, an act of radical resistance grounded in grassroots movements. Anticapitalism does not represent an unattainable utopia but challenges common myths about capitalism as a whole.
Tournament: St Marks | Round: 5 | Opponent: Loyola CM | Judge: Krauss, Gordon
The United States federal government should commit to purchasing sufficient doses of COVID-19 vaccines to meet global demand and establish public-private partnerships to expand global vaccine manufacturing capacity.
Buying and exporting vaccines solves while avoiding the innovation DA.
Gianna Gancia 21, (IT, ID) is a member of Parliament's Development Committee, "Why waiving patents on vaccines is not a good idea," Parliament Magazine, 5-14-2021, https://www.theparliamentmagazine.eu/news/article/why-waiving-patents-on-vaccines-is-not-a-good-idea In fact, there would be no incentive for pharmaceutical companies to conduct research, AND good and humanitarian, without contributing in any way to actually helping them.
10/17/21
cartel da
Tournament: St Marks | Round: 2 | Opponent: Southlake Carrol EP | Judge: Johnson, Dillon
Increased cartel competition and fragmentation cause attacks against PEMEX – decks American energy security
Neil King, global economics editor for the WSJ, Peak Oil: A Survey of Security Concerns, Center for a New American Security, '8, http://www.cnas.org/files/documents/publications/CNAS_Working20Paper_PeakOil_King_Sept2008.pdf Many commentators in the United States and abroad have begun to wrestle with the question AND risk increases that a scramble for assets in the Artic could turn nasty.
10/16/21
mexico pic
Tournament: St Marks | Round: 2 | Opponent: Southlake Carrol EP | Judge: Johnson, Dillon
Counterplan: The member nations of the World Trade Organization, excluding Mexico, should delay patent enforcement for cannabis.
10/16/21
t-cant spec medicines
Tournament: St Marks | Round: 3 | Opponent: Immaculate Heart AW | Judge: Hsu, Jonathan
Topic is: The member nations of the World Trade Organization ought to reduce intellectual property protections for medicines.
The s at the end of medicines implies plurality meaning more than one medicine
Violation – they cant spec medicines – they did.
Negate for limits and ground – their interp opens up the floodgates to affs that would reduce IP for any small thing… if crispr counts as a medicine then anything could count as a medicine because it is medical tech. for example, a stethoscope is medical tech so a stethoscope aff would be allowed under their interp.
Count the affs FDA '21
FDA. "FACT SHEET: FDA AT A GLANCE." Retrieved October 16, 2021. https://www.fda.gov/about-fda/fda-basics/fact-sheet-fda-glance FDA is responsible for the oversight of more than $2.8 trillion in AND The estimated number of regulated products is continually assessed for accuracy and reliability.
Precision matters –
Topicality is a voting issue that should be evaluated through competing interpretations – it tells the negative what they do and do not have to prepare for—there's no way for the negative to know what constitutes a "reasonable interpretation" when we do prep – reasonability is arbitrary and causes a race to the bottom, proliferating abuse
No RVIs—it's your burden to be topical.
10/16/21
t-reduce
Tournament: St Marks | Round: 2 | Opponent: Southlake Carrol EP | Judge: Johnson, Dillon
1
Reduce means diminish
Merriam Webster ~Encyclopedia Britannica, "Reduce"~ ~DS~ to diminish in size, amount, extent, or number reduce taxes reduce the likelihood of war
IP protections are the patents, trademarks, trade secrets, and copyrights themselves
UpCounsel 6/23/20 ~The Modern Way to get Legal Work Done, "Intellectual Property Protection"~ ~DS~ Four Types of IP Protection for Businesses You'll find four main types of IP protection AND can visit the U.S. Copyright Office website for more information.
Violation – the aff doesn't reduce an actual IP protection through changing eligibility criteria or increasing restrictions – instead, it temporarily delays how one is enforced
Negate for limits and ground – their interp opens up the floodgates to process affs that change minute processes of implementation and claim perception advantages off of the balance of power between branches of the government – skirt core neg ground like the innovation DA and politics because they still defend patents writ large.
Precision matters – only our evidence points to the protections themselves, as opposed to how they are implemented, which matters because it determines predictability and the value of lost ground.
Topicality is a voting issue that should be evaluated through competing interpretations – it tells the negative what they do and do not have to prepare for—there's no way for the negative to know what constitutes a "reasonable interpretation" when we do prep – reasonability is arbitrary and causes a race to the bottom, proliferating abuse