A) Uniqueness:  US and China are cooperating now, but relations are on the fence
Xinbo 11 (Wu, professor and deputy director at the Center for American Studies and associate dean at the School of International Relations and Public Affairs, Fudan University, June, “China and the United States:  Core Interests, Common Interests, and Partnership,” http://www.usip.org/files/resources/SR277.pdf)  

While China will continue to ... arrangement for environmental concerns.

B) Link: China empirically fights US democracy aid – perceives it as coercion
Carothers 6 (Thomas, vice president for studies at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace; director of the Democracy and Rule of Law Program, The Backlash Against Democracy Promotion, FOREIGN AFFAIRS, MARCH/APRIL, http://www.carnegieendowment.org/2006/02/28/backlash-against-democracy-promotion/acr)

The backlash against democracy ... sharply restricting such activities.

C) Impact:  U.S.–China relations are key to solving a laundry list of issues – global conflict, economics, and green energy
Xinbo 11(Wu, professor and deputy director at the Center for American Studies and associate dean at the School of International Relations and Public Affairs, Fudan University, June, “China and the United States:  Core Interests, Common Interests, and Partnership,” http://www.usip.org/files/resources/SR277.pdf)  

In an era of increased ... creating an international environmental regime.

A) Uniqueness:  skfta will pass now

B) Links:
 1. Obama’s capital is key to getting SKFTA through

Knowledge@Wharton 11 (the online business journal of the Wharton School, 1/12  “U.S.-South Korea Trade Pact: A Turning Point for American Exports?” http://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/article.cfm?articleid=2671)

With Portman now in the Senate and other ... Democrats and Tea Party Republicans.

2. Plan will cost capital – financial concerns

Richter 11 (Paul, LA Times, 4/12, Debt worries stymieing U.S. financial aid to help Arab nations in transition, http://articles.latimes.com/print/2011/apr/12/world/la-fg-mideast-aid-20110413)

The Obama administration's efforts ... from other foreign aid programs.

C) Impacts
 1. South Korean FTA is key to the alliance
 Cooper 9 (William, June 17, The Proposed U.S.-South Korea Free Trade Agreement (KORUS FTA): Provisions and Implications.  Congressional Research Service. http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/row/RL34330.pdf)

In contrast, while the passage of the...strategic, rather than economic, relations.

2. Alliance key to checking global conflict and prolif
 Pritchard et al 9 (President of the Korea Economic Institute (Charles L, 6/16. With John H. Tilelli Jr., Chairman and CEO, Cypress International, and Scott A. Snyder, Adjunct Senior Fellow for Korea Studies, CFR. “A New Chapter for U.S.-South Korea Alliance.” Council on Foreign Relations. http://www.cfr.org/publication/19635/new_chapter_for_ussouth_korea_alliance.html)
  

While all eyes have been trained ...  to put pressure on North Korea.

The United Nations should _________

UN can solve democracy assistance   

Rich 2008 (Roland, member of the directing staff at the Centre for Defense and Strategic Studies of

the Australian Defense College and the Executive Head of the United Nations Democracy Fund. “The United Nations and Democracy Promotion”. The World of Parliaments September 2008 No. 31. http://www.un.org/democracyfund/Docs/WOP31_Rich_engl.pdf)

The reason for the UN’s ... means for that improvement.

A) Uniqueness - Payroll Tax will pass now

B) Links

1. Obama’s political capital is key to passage

Jackson 10/14 (David, USA Today,“Obama, GOP Push Competing Jobs Plans,” http://content.usatoday.com/communities/theoval/post/2011/10/obama-gop-push-competing-jobs-plans/1)

Look for President Obama …I'll be ready to go."

2. Plan will cost capital – financial concerns

Richter 11 (Paul, LA Times, 4/12, Debt worries stymieing U.S. financial aid to help Arab nations in transition, http://articles.latimes.com/print/2011/apr/12/world/la-fg-mideast-aid-20110413)

The Obama administration's …other foreign aid programs.

C) Impacts
 1. Payroll tax extension is key to solving unemployment – creates millions of jobs

Mulligan 11 (Casey B., econ prof @ the University of Chicago, 9/21, The Logic of Cutting Payroll Taxes, http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/09/21/the-logic-of-cutting-payroll-taxes/?pagemode=print)

Payroll taxes are by no means …and at this point one worth seeking.

2. Lack of jobs is the key internal link to economic stagnation

Curry 11 (Tom, National Affairs writer, 9/21, budget begins colliding with demographic reality, http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/44609575/ns/politics/t/budget-begins-colliding-demographic-reality/#.TqD3g0hFuso)

And of course lack of jobs … unrelated to their health.”

3. Economic collapse causes full WMD exchange and extinction

Bearden 2k (T.E., phd, Fellow, Alpha Foundation’s Institute for Advaned Study & Director, Association of Distinguished American Scientists, “The Unnecessary Energy Crisis: How to Solve It Quickly,” 6/12, www.cheniere.org/techpapers/Unnecessary%20Energy%20Crisis.doc)

History bears out that … biosphere, at least for many decades.