Tournament: Yale | Round: 2 | Opponent: Lexington FM | Judge: Devin Jiang
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Josh Hawley 20. Senator from Missouri, JD @ Yale, "The W
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leading institutions, the World Trade Organization.
We should abolish it.
Solves the case—-abolition allows free trade and permits nations govern without the pitfalls of the WTO
Josh Hawley 20. Senator from Missouri, JD @ Yale, "The W.T.O. Should Be Abolished," New York Times, May 5, 2020, https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/05/opinion/hawley-abolish-wto-china.html, RJP, DebateDrills
Abandoning the W.T.O. is a start. The United States
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a new network of trusted friends and partners to resist Chinese economic imperialism.
1~ Normal means—-it’s a TRIPs waiver, which doesn’t make sense if TRIPs and the WTO doesn’t exist
James Bacchus 20. Member of the Herbert A. Stiefel Center for Trade Policy Studies, the Distinguished University Professor of Global Affairs and director of the Center for Global Economic and Environmental Opportunity at the University of Central Florida. He was a founding judge and was twice the chairman—the chief judge—of the highest court of world trade, the Appellate Body of the World Trade Organization in Geneva, Switzerland. "An Unnecessary Proposal: A WTO Waiver of Intellectual Property Rights for COVID-19 Vaccines," CATO, December 16, 2020, https://www.cato.org/free-trade-bulletin/unnecessary-proposal-wto-waiver-intellectual-property-rights-covid-19-vaccines, RJP, DebateDrills
In a sign of their increasing frustration with global efforts to ensure that all people
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the WTO needs is another debate over perceived trade obstacles to public health.
Merriam Webster n.d. "Member," https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/member, RJP, DebateDrills
- one of the individuals composing a group
3~ "Member of" means "to be contained in" "to be included in" and "be part of" —- none of those are possible if the broader group is gone.