Lakeland+WR-+Jason+Wright+&+Taylor+Roth+neg

Lakeland RW – Negative

LOST 1NC

We have been reading this since Michigan

B) Links

1) Public health assistance burns political capital

Carroll 1 [Terry Carroll Colonel in U.S. Army, US Army War College Strategy Research Project, ENGAGEMENT OF MARRIAGE: THE CASE FOR AN EXPANDED MILITARY MEDICAL ROLE IN AFRICA; March 27, 2001, http://stinet.dtic.mil/cgi-bin/GetTRDoc?AD=ADA390489&Location=U2&doc=GetTRDoc.pdf]

Some argue that …regard to Africa.

2) Political capital key to passage

EED 7 [Energy & Environment Daily, 5/16]

Bush's comments could … president would push" (E&ENews PM, May 9).

C) Impacts

1) LOST ratification critical to naval power projection & military readiness

Clark 10/4 [Vernon Clark Former Chief of Naval Operations U.S. Navy, CQ, 10-4, 7]

While serving as … the world's oceans.

2) Strong power projection and readiness critical to prevent escalation to World War III

Barnes 98 [Wyatt, partner at Roney and Co., Strategic Review, Fall]

Olsen would have … will be welcome

China 1NC

We don’t always read the DA the same way, this is the most common version.

Chinese leaders are insecure and fear outside geopolitical pressure by the U.S., but the political situation is currently stable

ASIA MEDIA NEWS DAILY, May 1, 2007, http://www.asiamedia.ucla.edu/article-eastasia.asp?parentid=68978

Susan L. Shirk … be serious implications.

China uses African ties to preserve its global positioning and prevent encirclement

Carla Hills, former trade negotiator, Council on Foreign Relations, U.S.-CHINA RELATIONS: AN AFFIRMATIVE AGENDA, A RESPONSIBLE COURSE, April 2007, http://www.cfr.org/publication/12985/uschina_relations.html

At the same … growth and security.

The plan upstages China – China currently relies on increases in foreign aid and declining U.S. leadership to secure its interests in Africa. The plan is a direct challenge

GLOBE & MAIL, November 6, 2006, p. http://www.uofaweb.ualberta.ca/chinainstitute/news.cfm?story=52700

An unprecedented summit … China's oil imports.

Foreign policy losses threaten Chinese politicians

Susan Shirk, served as deputy assistant secretary for China at the U.S. State Department from 19 secretary for China at the U.S. State Department from 1999 to 2000.CHINA: FRAGILE SUPERPOWER, 2007, p. 66

Today's leaders have … for overthrowing them.

Pressure on China creates tensions among the factions, collapsing bipartisanship

Cheng Li ‘5, William R. Kenan Professor of Government and Chair of the Asian Studies Program at Hamilton College (Orbis, Summer 2005, 387-400)

Because bipartisanship is … checks and balances.

Internal political strife will collapse the regime

Lowell Dittmer ’90 The China Quarterly, No. 123. (Sep., 1990), pp. 405-430

Elite strife is … be handled “correctly.”

Regime collapse causes lashout and nuclear war

The Epoch Times ‘5, 8/3/05 http://www.theepochtimes.com/news/5-8-3/30931.html

Since the Party’s … with their lives.