CHINA DISAD

US-China relations high now
Xinhau 6/21
[“Vice FM expresses confidence in future of China-U.S. relationship” Xinhau. June 21, 2011. http://news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/china/2011-06/21/c_13941904.htm]

Plan collapses relations – they see it as a shift to democracy promotion, threatening internal stability
Hill 11
[Fiona Hill is director of the Brookings Institution's Center on the United States and Europe and senior fellow in its foreign-policy program. From 2006 to 2009, she was on leave from Brookings as the national intelligence officer for Russia and Eurasia at the U.S. National Intelligence Council. “How Russia and China See the Egyptian Revolution” Foreign Policy. FEBRUARY 15, 2011. http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2011/02/15/how_russia_and_china_see_the_egyptian_revolution]

Relations are key to Korean stability
Haenle 1/19
[Paul Haenle director of the Carnegie-Tsinghua Center in Beijing, China.  Prior to joining Carnegie, he served from June 2007 to June 2009 as the director for China, Taiwan, and Mongolian Affairs on the National Security Council staffs of former President George W. Bush and President Barack H. Obama. From June 2007 to January 2009, Haenle also played a key role as the White House representative to the U.S. negotiating team at the Six-Party Talks nuclear negotiations and, from May 2004 to June 2007, served as the executive assistant to the U.S. national security adviser. “Overcoming Mistrust in U.S.-China Relations” Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Jan 19, 2011. http://www.carnegieendowment.org/publications/index.cfm?fa=view&id=42331]

Nuclear war
Hayes and Green 10 (Peter, Professor of International Relations – Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology and Director – Nautilus Institute, and Michael Hamel, Victoria University, “The Path Not Taken, the Way Still Open: Denuclearizing the Korean Peninsula and Northeast Asia”, Nautilus Institute Special Report, 1-5, http://www.nautilus.org/fora/security/10001HayesHamalGreen.pdf)

SAUDI ARABIA DISAD

Unique Link - pushing democracy assistance will collapse US-Saudi relations
Tarpley 2011 (Press TV interview with Webster Griffin Tarpley, author, journalist and lecturer from Washington, June 18, "Saudi Arabia alarmed by US intentions" http://www.presstv.com/detail/189582.html, SRM)

Relations decline over the Arab Spring will drive the Saudis to proliferate
Guzansky July 1st, 2011 (Yoel Guzansky is a research fellow at the Institute for National Security Studies at Tel Aviv University. He joined INSS after serving at Israel's National Security Council; "TEHRAN TESTS SAUDIS' NERVE ON NUKES", LEXIS, SRM)

Saudi prolif leads to fast regional prolif
Center for Contemporary Conflict 2004  (“Conference on WMD Proliferation in the Middle East: Directions and Policy Options in the New Century” http://www.ciaonet.org/olj/si/si_3_8/si_3_8_ruj01.pdf)

Rapid prolif causes pre-emptive nuclear war.
Heurlin 2005 (Jean Monnet Professor of European Security and Integration at the Department of Political Science of the University of Copenhagen, and Sten Rynning, "Missile defence", p 162-3)

YEMEN CONDITIONING CP

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Transparency measures key to solvency in Yemen – otherwise aid disappears due to corruption

Haykel 2011 (June 7, Bernard, Professor of Near Eastern Studies, Princeton University, “Yemen’s Uncertain Political Future,”)

SCIENCE DISAD VS ONTOLOGY AFF

Their criticism of western learning empowers anti-science forces whose arguments are based on gross misunderstandings of scientific concepts

Gross and Levitt, 1994 (Paul R. University Professor of Life Sciences and director of the Center for Advanced Studies at the University of Virginia, and Norman, Professor of mathematics at Rutgers, “The natural sciences: Trouble Ahead? Yes,” Academic Questions, Vol. 7, Issue 2, Spring)

Science should be left to scientists – their criticism of exceptionalism within science destroys the discipline and guarantees that people stop learning it

Gross and Levitt, 1994 (Paul R. University Professor of Life Sciences and director of the Center for Advanced Studies at the University of Virginia, and Norman, Professor of mathematics at Rutgers, “The natural sciences: Trouble Ahead? Yes,” Academic Questions, Vol. 7, Issue 2, Spring)

The skepticism that they empower spills over into climate skepticism

Demeritt, 1

David Demeritt, Department of Geography King’s College London, 6/1/2001, Blackwell Publishers, InformaWorld “The Construction of Global Warming and the Politics of Science,” Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 91(2), 2001, p. 307–337

Extinction

Powell 2000

By Corey S. Powell "20 Ways the World Could End Swept away" DISCOVER Vol. 21 No. 10 (October 2000) http://www.ldolphin.org/twentyways.html

DO NOTHING CP

CP: do nothing in (wherever)

Status quo movements in the Arab Spring have taken a rhizomatic character capable of creating new forms of governance without the interjection of third-party law.  They will be just fine without us. A more effective method of solving Islamophobia is to have faith in the people of the Arab Spring to resolve their own problems

Khan 2011 (Muhammad Saad, research student at the Department of Philosophy, University of Karachi. He holds a masters degree in economics and has  written for The Daily Times (Pakistan) and Express News (Pakistan).  "Organic Dimensions of the "Arab Spring"" http://www.politicalaffairs.net/organic-dimensions-of-the-arab-spring/)

Assistance inevitably results in a violent conversion to sameness.  Any intervention in the Arab Spring risks imperial takeover and regime manipulation to serve the interests of the US

Ghannoushi 2011 (Soumaya, is a researcher in the history of ideas at the School of Oriental and African Studies. "Obama, hands off our spring" May 26 2011 www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/may/26/obama-hands-off-arab-spring)

We shouldn't be guilty about failures in democracy, we should be shameful. 

Dean and Copjec, 2006 (Jodi Dean, college professor in political science with 2 kids and Joan Copjec, Department of English, Comparative Literature, and Media Study at the University of Buffalo, where she is the Director of the Center for the Study of Psychoanalysis and Culture.  “For Shame” http://www.long-sunday.net/long_sunday/2006/04/the_world_socia.html)

SPANOS CRITIQUE

The affirmative’s deployment of democracy assistance is gridded within the Western metaphor of the centered circle. Their appeals for aid on the grounds that “THEY” are “JUST LIKE US” is the extension of ontological violence into the periphery, converting the other to sameness as part and parcel of the ever expanding imperial project.

Spanos 2K (William, Prof of English and Comparative Literature at Binghamtom University, America’s Shadow, pg 56-60)

The affirmative plan parallels the senior Bush administration’s attempt to “kick the Vietnam syndrome.” By labeling ____________ as an aberration caused by American neurosis to be fixed by reform, the affirmative returns legitimacy to the American project of world ordering. This “forgetting of Vietnam” crushes reform and allows the dominant culture to continue its hegemonic rule under a guise of rehabilitating America.

Spanos 2K (William, Prof of English and Comparative Literature at Binghamtom University, America’s Shadow, pg 141-144)

DIPLOMATIC CAPITAL DA

Food Aid negotiations with North Korea are succeeding now and solve disarmament negotiations

AP December 18 (Time, “U.S. Aid a Step Toward Korea Nuke Talks” JEAN H. LEE, http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,2102759,00.html#ixzz1hRPjtaLn

Clinton’s diplomatic capital is zero-sum. Spending capital on assistance trades off
 Kelemen 8-21-2011, NPR, she has been traveling with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton from Asia to the Middle East and Europe, tracking the Obama administration's broad foreign policy agenda, Hillary Clinton: U.S. Diplomacy Is Stretched Thin, http://www.npr.org/people/2100727/michele-kelemenhttp://www.npr.org/2011/08/16/139678323/hillary-clinton-u-s-diplomacy-is-stretched-thin

Food aid negotiations now are key to prevent loose nukes that cause nuclear terror

Gallucci 12-22, president of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation and  the chief negotiator with North Korea during the administration of President Bill Clinton (Robert. December 21, “What to Do, and Not Do, About North Korea”, http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/22/opinion/north-korea-isnt-a-crisis-yet.html)

Retaliation causes nuclear war

Rhodes 10 – Affiliate of the Center for International Security and Cooperation at Stanford University, Former visiting scholar at Harvard and MIT, and author of “The Making of the Atomic Bomb” which won the Pulitzer Prize in Nonfiction, National Book Award, and National Book Critics Circle Award, Richard, The Twilight of the Bombs: Recent Challenges, New Dangers, and the Prospects for a World Without Nuclear Weapons, p. 289