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File Name | S21-Policy-Stoa-12-NEG-Africa.docx |
File Size | 72.87 KB |
Date added | October 19, 2020 |
Category | Archived |
Tags | Debate, Policy, Season 21, Stoa |
The AFF plan withdraws US troops from Africa. This will be a bad idea because US forces are key to fighting terrorism that threatens African citizens and US national security. In addition, US troops withdrawn from Africa would be redeployed to confront China, which would cause far more danger to US security than anything going on in Africa.
Note: The two China disadvantages at first sound mutually contradictory but they are not. The first one says US troops withdrawn from Africa would be redeployed to the Pacific where they would antagonize China, and that’s bad. The second one says US troops withdrawn from Africa would not be in Africa to confront China, and that’s bad. The difference is, we need to confront China in Africa, where we can compete for global influence with other countries, but not confront China in the Pacific, where it will seem we are directly threatening the Chinese homeland itself and getting in their face. Avoiding both disads requires a Negative ballot, because it means US troops will stay in Africa to block Chinese hegemony there, and will not be pulled out to antagonize China in the Pacific.
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