Tournament: JW Patterson HS Invitational | Round: 1 | Opponent: Cabot AC | Judge: Curry, Ausha
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~
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.
The WTO reduces war through peace dividends, interdependence, and rule of law
Baldwin, PhD, and Nakotomi 15
(Richard Baldwin, professor of international economics at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva, Michitaka, Consulting Fellow at the Research Institute of Economy, Trade and Industry (RIETI) and a Special Adviser to the Japan External Trade Organization (JETRO). https://cepr.org/sites/default/files/policy'insights/PolicyInsight84.pdf, July)
The WTO, and the GATT before it, has been one the planet’s precious
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only – example of a multilateral and nearuniversal framework of rules and law.