Introduction The purpose of this is to highlight that in order for the affirmative to increase space cooperation with Chinahe plan must overturn what is called the Wolf Amendment. The Wolf Amendment states that no funds may be spent by NASA or OSTP, (Office of Science and Technology Policy) to "develop, design, plan, promulgate, implement or execute a bilateral policy, program, order or contract of any kind to participate, collaborate or coordinate bilaterally in any way with China or any Chinese-owned company unless such activities are specifically authorized by law after the date of enactment of this act. The story of the DA says that removing the Wolf Amendment allows China access to U.S. space information allow China to accelerate its military – challenging U.S. primacy around the world (aka U.S. Leadership) A multipolar (multiple countries competing for who is the dominant country in the world) risk . a unipolar world only country how other countries act. There is a distinction here, smaller conflicts like civil wars could still occurbut a unipolar worldthose conflicts are less likely to spiral out of control. The affirmative can make several answers 1. The Wolf Amendment is failing now—this argument says that the Wolf amendment fails at from accessing information. 2. China steals from the U.S. now—this argument is a bigger push on the link by saying China is already stealing now, that means China should have already stolen the information it needs. 3. No impact—Hegemony/U.S. Leadership is not key to peace. The argument here is that analysts have done studies of peace and U.S. Leadership and have found no correlation between the two. Added for additional help is a better template on how negative and affirmative teams should interact with each other’s arguments. This will hopefully help improve clash and argumentation.
2. <Extend your original evidence that answers their argument> 3. Ban on Sino-American space cooperation prevents espionage and protects national security Fernholz ’13 Last week, when a US Navy destroyer narrowly avoided a collision with a Chinese naval vessel, there was at least something of a protocol in place for the two ships to communicate with one another. The same thing can’t be said of the two countries’ space programs. But that may change with the imminent retirement of US Congressman Frank Wolf, a Virginia Republican who served for 17 years.¶ Since 2001, Wolf has either led or played an important role on the funding committee for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), where he put the kibosh on any cooperation with China’s space program. Wolf objected to Chinese political repression and forced abortions due to China’s one-child policy (“Would you have a bilateral program with Stalin?” Wolf once asked). He also feared China might exploit the relationship to gain secret information about US space technology like it did after a failed launch in 1996, as Zach Rosenberg explains.¶ By blocking any kind of cooperation between the two nations, Wolf’s stand against China contributed to the International Space Station being built without Chinese help. Nonetheless, the US cooperates with Russia on that project and other space initiatives, despite the country’s strategic differences with the US and its tarnished human rights record.¶ With its attempts to join in the ISS project quashed by Wolf’s ban, China went ahead with its own space station project, launching the Tiangong 1 station in 2011. Since then, it’s been steadily gaining on the Russian space program in terms of both capability and willingness to invest. That’s one reason why Wolf’s replacement might want to consider relaxing his predecessor’s ban on China cooperation, though it might come with security risks. Experts note that China’s space program is much more tightly intertwined with its military and much more opaque than Russia’s Roscosmos. “They say China has been stealing tech for years” 1. <Insert a reason why their evidence is bad> 2. xtend your original evidence that answers their argument>