Tournament: Yale Invitational | Round: 3 | Opponent: Phyllis Wan | Judge: Amelia Ritenour
America’s maintaining heg and countering China’s rise, but sustained innovation and private sector investment are key.
Harr 8/3 ~Scott, Army Special Forces Officer and Ph.D. Candidate at the Helms School of Government, Liberty University. He holds an undergraduate degree in Arabic Language Studies from West Point and a Master’s degree in Middle Eastern Affairs from Liberty University. A trained Arabic and Farsi speaker with over four years of cumulative deployment time in the Middle East, his work has been featured in The Diplomat, RealClearDefense, The Strategy Bridge, Modern War Institute, Military Review, The National Interest, and Joint Force Quarterly among other national security-focused venues, "By Avoiding Arms Races, America Can Counter China’s Rise", 08-03-2021, https://nationalinterest.org/feature/avoiding-arms-races-america-can-counter-chinaE28099s-rise-191094~~//pranav
Rather than falling into the power projection arms race "trap" that China desires
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these historical impulses to remain a superpower in the twenty-first century.
The affirmative’s reduction disincentivizes record setting innovation that causes spillover to other fields and destroys American hegemony and cedes dominance to China.
Iancu 8/11 ~Andrei, American-Romanian engineer and intellectual property attorney, who served as the Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the United States Patent and Trademark Office from 2017 to 2021, "Biden is trying to undermine America's world-leading IP protections", https://m.washingtontimes.com/news/2021/aug/11/biden-is-trying-to-undermine-americas-world-leadin/~~//pranav
In May of this year, the Biden administration announced its support for a proposal
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envy of the world. Waiving intellectual property rights could forfeit it all.
Primacy and allied commitments solve arms races and great power war – unipolarity is sustainable and prevents power vacuums and global escalation.
Brands 18 ~(Hal, Henry Kissinger Distinguished Professor at Johns Hopkins University's School of Advanced International Studies and a senior fellow at the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments) "American Grand Strategy in the Age of Trump," Page 129-133~
Since World War II, the United States has had a military second to none
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Russian and Chinese modernization efforts are now creating a far more competitive environment.
Yes, if we win that the consequences of the general principle are bad and cause a nuclear war, then it takes out.