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1AC – Inh

Contention One – Inherency –

Last month, the Obama administration arbitrarily blocked Chinese ownership of renewable energy companies. This restriction on energy production deters investment and damages US-China relations.

Xinhua 9/30/12 The alarm bell of US protectionism rings loud - China.org.cn http://www.china.org.cn/business/2012-09/30/content_26681566.htm
A recent decision by U.S. President Barack Obama to block a Chinese
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a disturbing message to other foreign investors, no less the Chinese ones.

And, the rejection is a protectionist weapon that sets a precedent against foreign investment in energy.

Wall Street Journal 10-15 2012: 13. Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Wind Farm; Did Obama abuse a security process to kill a Chinese investment for political reasons? Proquest

Enter the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States, or Cfius. Since
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evidence to market its products to Pacific-Northwest wind-farm operators.

Econ

Contention Two – Advantages –

====Advantage one is the Economy====

====First, Obama’s rejection of Chinese wind development signals protectionism and discourages foreign investment in American energy.====
Nick Juliano and John McArdle, 10/2/12 E%26E reporters  Obama’s blocking of wind farm adds to U.S.-China tension
Posted: Tuesday, October 2, 2012 http://www.governorswindenergycoalition.org/?p=3480-http://www.governorswindenergycoalition.org/?p=3480

The Treasury Department said last week that blocking the Oregan project was done to protect
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economy still struggling to create jobs, that’s the wrong signal to send."

And, now is critical - the brink for an all-out trade war is now .

Julie Crawshaw 8/23/12 Stephen Roach: Disastrous Trade War With China Looms Thursday, 23 Aug 2012 08:59 AM Read more: Stephen Roach: Disastrous Trade War With China Looms http://www.moneynews.com/StreetTalk/Roach-China-trade-war/2012/08/23/id/449486

Stephen Roach, former Chairman of Morgan Stanley Asia and current Yale professor, warns
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the Great Crisis, there is no shortage of itchy fingers in Washington."

====The impact is war with China - Trade wars escalate – collapsing the global economy, creating widespread protectionism and becoming a shooting war.====
Wang and Li 11 (Jianhua and Yunlu—Xinhua news agency, citing Ni Feng, Vice President of the Institute of American Studies underthe Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Zhao Jinping, vice director of the Foreign Economic Department of the Development Research Center (DRC) of the State Council "China-US trade war no good for anyone", October 13, 2011. http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/90780/7616581.html 

A trade war between the United States and China, each of which is the
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and will even lead to political and military confrontations in some sensitive regions. 

And, Conflict with China will escalate to global nuclear war

Lee Hunkovic (Professor of Political Science at the American Military University) 2009 "The Chinese-Taiwanese Conflict: Possible Futures of a Confrontation between China, Taiwan and the United States of America", http://www.lamp-method.org/eCommons/ Hunkovic.pdf-http://www.lamp-method.org/eCommons/Hunkovic.pdf)
A war between China, Taiwan and the United States has the potential to escalate
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outcome, therefore, other countries will not be considered in this study.

Further, rejection of foreign investment in this case sets a terrible precedent and creates widespread protectionism.

Georgiev, 2008 George Stephanov The Reformed Cfius Regulatory Framework: Mediating Between Continued Openness to Foreign Investment and National Security Yale Journal on Regulation › Vol. 25 Nbr. 1, January 2008

The regulatory regime that governs the national security review of foreign acquisitions of U.
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away from the U.S. economy through more liberal laws.5

And, protectionism spirals out of control and causes nuclear war

Panzner 8 – faculty at the New York Institute of Finance, 25-year veteran of the global stock, bond, and currency markets who has worked in New York and London for HSBC, Soros Funds, ABN Amro, Dresdner Bank, and JPMorgan Chase (Michael, "Financial Armageddon: Protect Your Future from Economic Collapse," p. 136-138)

Continuing calls for curbs on the flow of finance and trade will inspire the United
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between Muslims and Western societies as the beginnings of a new world war.

Global Warming

Advantage 2 – is Global Warming

First, The restriction on Chinese renewable development singles out China and destroys relations.

Edward Alden 10/2/12 Council on Foreign Relations The Changing Politics of Chinese Trade and Investment http://blogs.cfr.org/renewing-america/2012/10/02/the-changing-politics-of-chinese-trade-and-investment/-http://blogs.cfr.org/renewing-america/2012/10/02/the-changing-politics-of-chinese-trade-and-investment/

On the same day last week that President Obama was issuing an order blocking a
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getting harder – is to figure out whether both can be done simultaneously.

Only US-China cooperation and investment solves.

Woetzel 9 ~~Dr. Jonathan Woetzel, Ph.D. in political science from USC, Director in McKinsey %26 Company’s Greater China Office, August 2009, "China and the US: The potential of a clean-tech partnership,"  http://www.mckinseyquarterly.com/China_and_the_US_The_potential_of_a_clean-tech_partnership_2419~~~~~~

China and the United States, the world’s dominant producers of carbon emissions, have
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all of these technologies, they cannot achieve separately what they could jointly.

And, the restriction irritates already fragile China-US tensions.

CS Monitor 10/3/12 Obama blocks Chinese wind farm ownership in Oregon 

The decision marks the first time in more than 22 years that an American president
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Treasury Department statement attempted to play down the political gravity of the decision.

Restricting energy development on the basis that foreign investment is a threat to national security sends the signal that the US energy market is off limit and stifles US-China energy cooperation

Claudia Mahn 10/1/12 Global Insight October 1, 2012 President Obama blocks Chinese wind farm ambitions Lexis

However, in a statement on Friday, the Department of Treasury said the president’s
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terminals currently under regulatory review (seeUnited States: 22 August 2012 .

Cooperation on energy spills over and solves broader US-China relations

Cronin 8/27 (2012, Dr. Patrick M. Cronin is Senior Advisor and Senior Director of the Asia-Pacific Security Program at the Center for a New American Security in Washington, D.C.  He is also the editor and co-author of Cooperation from Strength: The United States, China and the South China, "Averting Conflict in the South China Sea," http://www.chinausfocus.com/foreign-policy/averting-conflict-in-the-south-china-sea/)
Geostrategic and globalization interests will both persist, forcing an uncomfortable mixture of competition and cooperation.

Cooperative schemes have foundered on distrust, and can be viewed cynically as seeking to
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the South China Sea will only be harnessed when there is such cooperation. 

Cooperative Clean-energy investment is critical to green-tech diffusion and solving climate change.

Lin 11 ~Justin Yifu Lin, Former World Bank Chief Economist and Senior Vice President, "China, the US and clean energy cooperation," Jan 21 2011, http://blogs.worldbank.org/developmenttalk/china-the-us-and-clean-energy-cooperation~~~~~~
Second, there are also major long-term global benefits from clean energy cooperation
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planet’s resources and safeguard future generations from the damaging effects of climate change.

Only US-China cooperation and investment solves.

Woetzel 9 ~Dr. Jonathan Woetzel, Ph.D. in political science from USC, Director in McKinsey %26 Company’s Greater China Office, August 2009, "China and the US: The potential of a clean-tech partnership,"  http://www.mckinseyquarterly.com/China_and_the_US_The_potential_of_a_clean-tech_partnership_2419~~~~~~

China and the United States, the world’s dominant producers of carbon emissions, have
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all of these technologies, they cannot achieve separately what they could jointly.

Warming results in extinction

Ahmed 2010 (Nafeez Ahmed, Executive Director of the Institute for Policy Research and Development, professor of International Relations and globalization at Brunel University and the University of Sussex, Spring/Summer 2010, "Globalizing Insecurity: The Convergence of Interdependent Ecological, Energy, and Economic Crises," Spotlight on Security, Volume 5, Issue 2, online)
Perhaps the most notorious indicator is anthropogenic global warmings warming. The landmark 2007 Fourth
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– a situation endangering the survival of all life on earth.~xi~

No adaption to worst case – the impact is extinction

Tickell 8 (Oliver, Environmental Researcher, The Guardian, August 11, http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/aug/11/climatechange-http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/aug/11/climatechange, JMB, accessed 6-23-11)
We need to get prepared for four degrees of global warming, Bob Watson told
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the warming caused by human emissions could propel us towards a similar hothouse Earth

Scientific consensus on anthropogenic warming

Anderegg et al 10 ~William, Professor of Biology at Stanford University; James W. Prall, Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Toronto; Jacob Harold, William and Flora Hewlett Foundation; Stephen H. Schneider, Professor of Biology at Stanford University, Senior Fellow at the Woods Institute for the Environment, "Expert credibility in climate change," 5-9, PNAS, vol 107, no 27, http://www.pnas.org/content/107/27/12107.full.pdf+html~~
Preliminary reviews of scientific literature and surveys of climate scientists indicate striking agreement with the
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discussions in media, policy, and public forums regarding anthropogenic climate change.

Plan

Thus, we present the following plan:

Plan – The United States federal government should limit the review of foreign investment in wind power by the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States to cases in which national security, not economic competition is a factor.

Solvency

Contention 3 is Solvency -

Reversal of the CFIUS decision on wind energy is critical to send a signal that the US is open to investment.

Vigdor, Elwood %26 Marwell 10/22/12 Billy Vigdor and John Elwood are partners, and Jeremy Marwell is an associate at Vinson %26 Elkins’ Washington, D.C., office. "Blocking Ore. Wind Farms: Overstepping Authority?" http://www.velaw.com/uploadedFiles/VEsite/Resources/BlockingOreWindFarmsOversteppingAuthority.pdf
CFIUS practitioners and the business community should watch this case closely. The plaintiffs will
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for interested parties to express their views through amicus filings with the court.

Further, only explicitly removing economic competition from the scope of investment review solves.

David M. Marchick %26 Matthew J. Slaughter 2008 The Bernard and Irene Schwartz Series on American Competitiveness Global FDI Policy Correcting a Protectionist Drift CSR NO. 34, JUNE 2008 COUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS

Principle 1: The investment review law should be narrowly tailored and focused on national
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investment in transactions that do not raise national security or other governmental interests.

And, Chinese clean energy investment is critical to job creation in the US.

Linden Ellis %26 Jennifer Turner %26 Devin Kleinfield-Hayes 5/9/12 Linden J Ellis(lindenjellis@gmail.com) is a freelance journalist and former US project director at chinadialogue. Jennifer Turner (jennifer.turner@wilsoncenter.org) is the director of the China Environment Forum at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, where Devin Kleinfield-Hayes(devinkhayes@gmail.com) is a research assistant. China’s smart green energy investment http://www.climatespectator.com.au/commentary/china-s-smart-green-energy-investment

Critics argue that Chinese investment in US clean energy leads to theft of American jobs
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jobs go wherever the technology is deployed, not where it is manufactured.

And, The broad interpretation of national security fails – creates economic uncertainty, protectionism and hampers US foreign policy goals.

Carroll-Emory International Law Review-09 (Jamie FF, COMMENT: BACK TO THE FUTURE: REDEFINING THE FOREIGN INVESTMENT AND NATIONAL SECURITY ACT’S CONCEPTION OF NATIONAL SECURITY, 23 Emory Int’l L. Rev. 167)

The broad and vague interpretation of national security by the CFIUS creates four distinct problems
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foreign policy goals, just when such cooperation is essential to global peace.

Finally, Only a narrow wind-energy specific Limit to national security solves, the plan creates clarity and predictability.

David Marchick 2008 Sovereign Wealth Funds And National Security OECD/City of London ConferenceMarch 31, 2008 www.oecd.org/investment/investmentpolicy/40395077.pdf
How Should National Security Review Mechanisms be Structured? ➢ Narrowly tailored ▪ The investment
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requiring investment reviews, the lists should be drafted as narrowly as possible. 

Only the plan solves – courts can’t review the decision and only limiting the scope of review for CFIUS solves.

Stan Abrams 10/1/12 Beijing-based IP/IT lawyer and law professor. Obama Shoots Down Ralls Deal. What Happens Next? http://www.chinahearsay.com/obama-shoots-down-ralls-deal-what-happens-next/

So what happens next? If Ralls goes ahead with a lawsuit, it will
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deals, such as Nexen, will be somehow influenced by this case.