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

Definitions: On balance: All things pertaining to topic considered and weighed accordingly. Rise(of China): Upward movement in terms of economic, or military, or anything like such stance (of China) in the world. Beneficial: Favorable or advantageous; resulting in good Interest (of the United States): The national goals and ambitions of the United States, whether it be economic, military, etc. Framework: As the affirmative, we have the right to set the framework in todays round for a fair debate. Since the resolution contains on balance the weighing mechanism is net benefit meaning that the affirmative will prove that with EVERYTHING considered and weighed, the rise of China is advantageous for the interests of the United States meanwhile the negative has the burden to prove that the rise of China is NOT advantageous as a whole to the United States goals. In this debate, we will be focusing on economy and military growth and effects, seeing that the economy directly dictates quality of life and that military defends our life. C1. Chinas economy is heavily dependent to that of the United States. The simple truth is that the rise of Chinas economy is mostly due to United States. We are Chinas top
trading partner and its top destination for exports. Chinese exports of goods and services to the United States account for a 35 percent share of Chinas gross domestic product, and have exceeded its imports from the United States every year since 1990. In 2000, China ran a bilateral trade surplus of $83 billion; a figure that increased to $268 billion by December 2008 alone. (1) Considering that Chinas overall trade surplus, or the amount of money from export versus imports, in 2011 was 155.1 billion dollars and that the trade surplus solely against the United States was 272.3 billion dollars. Calculated out, this shows that 175% of the overall trade surplus of China was related to the sales to the U.S. Preceding years in 2008, 2009, and 2010 respectively showed a dependency of 90.1%, 115.7%, and 155.7%, clearly shows a trend of Chinas economy being more and more dependent to the US. This clear indicatio n of economic dependency brings us to our second contention.(2) C2. Due to this dependency, rising China will act on interest of the United States. China's economy produced $11.3 trillion in 2011, making it the third largest in the world (after the U.S. (15 trillion) and the European Union). Its economy slowed a bit, growing "only" 9.3% in 2011, after growing more than 10% per year for the last 30 years. Despite this growth, China is still a relatively poor country. Its economy only produces $8,400 per person, compared to the GDP per capita of $48,300 for the U.S. (3). As is apparent by these facts, China still needs the United States support economically, and through this rise, will continue to rely on the United States. Last year alone, $70 billion worth of American goods were sold to China and 437,000 jobs were created in the U.S as a result of this. China IS working

in the USs interests, creating jobs, and raising our GDP. We can also see that importing Chinese goods also benefit the US. In 2010, imports of apparel from China helped support 355,000 American jobs. Toy and sporting goods imports helped support 221,000 jobs, totaling up to 576,000 new jobs.(4) China is heavily dependent on the economy of the US, and, thus, is ensuring prosperity here, and their rise will only continue to add to the benefits of the United States.

C3. Chinas military buildup poses no harmful effects to the US. SA. Despite growth in Chinas military, it is unlikely that it will surpass that of the United States. Cold numbers show that the US military is near impossible to surpass in the near future. In 2010, the United States had spent nearly 700 billion dollars on the military as opposed to China spending a mere 119 billion dollars (5). In fact, despite Chinas increase military spending, the gab in spending between the US in China has still increased. Thus, while Chinas military is on the rise, the threat of replacing the United States as the hegemon or military world power is not precedent towards the US simply because the rise only occurred recently and cannot compare to the vast military power of the US. In terms of technology for the military, China still is handicapped and this area. We also see that China will not, in any future, overcome the US militarily, because of the Allies, or lack of them, in Chinas region. China merely has Russia to support them, and this is not entirely aid to China, as Russia is conservative and unwilling to act on any wars their Allies may get into. The US on the other hand has firm global allies, military bases worldwide, and a navy that circles the earth. Finally, there is the question of political will. China will fight to protect its interests in Taiwan and in Tibet. But other than that, North Korea has proved to be a major curse on China, and there are two other strong powers in the region, Japan and India, who will do everything they can to check China's military in its rise. Just last year, Japans defense minister, Satoshi Morimoto wanted to revise his nations national security with the United States to place a more emphasis on the thread from china. (6)