Tournament: harvard | Round: 2 | Opponent: basis silicon valley independent sk | Judge: krause
US heg is strong now, but Russia and China are gaining.
Hunt 17 ~Edward Hunt, () "The American Empire Isn't In Decline" Jacobin, 3-13-2017, https://www.jacobinmag.com/2017/03/obama-trump-mattis-united-states-empire/, DOA:9-15-2017 WWBW~
Some insist that the answer is yes — that the period of US global dominance
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are continuing to advance military systems that threaten our advantages in specific areas."
Autry and Kwast 19 Greg Autry and Steve Kwast 8-22-2019 "America Is Losing the Second Space Race to China" (Greg Autry, a clinical professor of space leadership, policy, and business at Arizona State University's Thunderbird School of Global Management, and Steve Kwast)Elmer
America Is Losing the Second Space Race to China The private sector can give the
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conflict while securing a better economic future for the nation and the world.
Heg solves every threat – collapse means return to spheres of influence and great power rivalry
Ikenberry 20 John Ikenberry 6-9-2020 "The Next Liberal Order: The Age of Contagion Demands More Internationalism, Not Less" https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/united-states/2020-06-09/next-liberal-order (Albert G. Milbank Professor of Politics and International Affairs at Princeton University and Global Eminence Scholar at Kyung Hee University, in South Korea)Elmer
The rivalry between the United States and China will preoccupy the world for decades,
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bad news is that it is far from certain that it will not.
~Caitlin Talmadge (10-15-2018), PhD in Political Science from MIT, BA in Government from Harvard, Professor of Security Studies at Georgetown University, "Beijing's Nuclear Option," Foreign Affairs, https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/china/2018-10-15/beijings-nuclear-option~~//recut CHS PK
As China's power has grown in recent years, so, too, has the
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and military tensions that might lead to a conflict in the first place.