Tournament: Loyola | Round: 1 | Opponent: Nathan Wei | Judge: Dylan Jones
Mohan 21 C. Raja Mohan ~director of the National University of Singapore’s Institute of South Asian Studies.~,3-19-2021, "India Romances the West," Foreign Policy, https://foreignpolicy.com/2021/03/19/india-modi-west-quad-china-biden-non-aligned/ , accessed 8/8/2021 EH and Brett
In affirming that the "Quad has come of age" at the first-
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rooted in the simple calculus of national interest rather than any involved reasoning.
Yogesh Pai and Prashant Reddy Thikkavarapu 21, Dr. Yogesh Pai has a PhD from the Inter-University Centre for IPR Studies, CUSAT, Kochi, in the area of Regulation of Standard-Essential Patents in India. Prashant Reddy Thikkavarapu Assistant Professor, National Academy of Legal Studies and Research (NALSAR) University of Law,. Hyderabad. Scrolli.in, Jun 01, 2021. "Even if WTO waives IP on vaccines, India will face challenge translating this into mass production" https://scroll.in/article/996079/even-if-wto-waives-ip-on-vaccines-india-will-face-challenge-translating-this-into-mass-production brett
With the United States agreeing to text-based negotiations on the revised Intellectual Property
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to new firms willing to produce vaccines will lead to actual vaccine production.
Gupta 20, Anubhav Gupta is the associate director of the Asia Society Policy Institute in New York. WPR, March 5, 2020. "Despite the Trump-Modi ‘Love,’ Trade Is Still the Weak Link in U.S.-India Relations" https://www.worldpoliticsreview.com/articles/28579/despite-the-trump-modi-love-trade-is-still-the-weak-link-in-us-india-relations brett
Despite winning a substantial mandate in elections last year, Modi’s inclination has been to
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partnership that is "stronger than ever before" ring a little hollow.
Gamage 17 (Rajni Gamage is a senior analyst with the Maritime Security Programme at the Institute of Defence and Strategic Studies, S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore., 11/5/17, "Why the Indian Ocean Must Not Become Like the South China Sea", https://nationalinterest.org/feature/why-the-indian-ocean-must-not-become-the-south-china-sea-23028?page=02C2)
Rising Strategic Uncertainty in the Indian Ocean The pursuit of contesting regional orders by major
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code of conduct (COC) for the Indian Ocean was first proposed.