Tournament: Newman Smith | Round: 3 | Opponent: no | Judge: no
America's maintaining hegemony and countering China's rise through "counter-punching" strategies, but sustained innovation and private sector investment are key – reject "US declining now" args – the US has historically punched over its weight whenever it's challenged
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 1AC's reduction of IPP for ~medicine~ is America "handing over its crown jewels" to competing nations by disincentivizing record setting innovation that causes spillover to other fields and destroys American hegemony.
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.
Only U.S. hegemony prevents global instability—-alternatives can't maintain peace
Haass, 17 - President of the Council on Foreign Relations (Richard, "Who Will Fill America's Shoes?," Project Syndicate, 6-24-2017, https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/global-leadership-successor-to-america-by-richard-n—haass-2017-06)
Still, a shift away from a US-dominated world of structured relationships and
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, a consensus on what needs doing and who needs to do it.
Thomas H. Henricksen 17, emeritus senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, 3/23/17, "Post-American World Order," http://www.hoover.org/research/post-american-world-order
The tensions stoked by the assertive regimes in the Kremlin or Tiananmen Square could spark
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problems which could entail a collapse, as happened to the Soviet Union.