On balance, the rise of China is beneficial to the interests of the United States.

As a brief roadmap, I will go over my opponents case, and then my own. As for my opponents first contention: Cyberwarfare, he said " On the other hand, if their economy continues to rise their will be less and less need for the chinese to hack the U. S. At some point chinese technologies will reach the sophistication of U. S. technologies which will preclude the need to hack altogether. " Now, to counter this, I will use an everyday example. Bobby and Billy are in a math class together. Bobby is very good at math and consistently scores "A's" on his tests. Billy, on the other hand, is barely passing the class, with a "D-" So, as soon as Billy finds out Bobby gets good grades, he begins to cheat off Bobby's papers. At the end of the semester, which one is better at math? The answer is Bobby. He knew how to solve the problem on his own, Billy is just behind because he did not learn along the way. Billy will continue to cheat in math classes because he never learned the basics taught in this class. This can be likened to Chinese hacking. The Chinese are behind, because they "cheated" off the United States papers, China will need to continue to cheat in order to maintain some form of power. The Chinese are essentially stealing secrets that took us years and millions of dollars to develop. My opponent brought up that hacking provides jobs for antihacking software companies. However, these are correlated, but not caused by the hacking industry. His second point: "Hegemony and how scary China could never be," does not make sense. "First we should consider exactly how China has managed to prosper in the last ten years and how they are projected to keep growing. China is an export driven economy which means they rely on other nations to buy the goods that they produce. So who does China increasingly sell to? The answer is the United States. " My opponent fails to mention that the whole reason China's economy is currently thriving, is because they build towns and cities, just to abandon them after 3 or 4 years. This creates jobs, but only temporarily. "the Chinese, in a world where they continue to rise, will never seek military agression against the United States. " Their economy will soon fail, then they do no t have anything to lose in this department by striking with war. Onto his third contention: "Stealing all that IP, Finally" As I brought up under my rebuttal to his first point, while his statement, "The United States will continue to beef up cyber security thereby creating more and more jobs. " is true, we have to look at what else came out recently that caused a rise in jobs for tech companies. .. the NSA. . http://www.businessinsider.com... With this,we can argue that while China's rise and jobs in the US may be correlated, these jobs are not caused by China's rise. I will now go over the framework my opponent accepted. "The team that can provide either the most benefit or harm relating to their side should win this round. For the Pro to win, they must show the most and greatest benefit of the rise of China. For the Con to win, they must show the most and greatest harm of the rise of China. " My opponent took the first round to argue against my case, which is actually against the framework. In order for him to win, he needed to provide the most benefit of China's rise. Because he refrained from providing a case, he showed that he had no ground to stand on. Therefore, I urge you (as a judge) to vote in negation to the resolution. Thank you.