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Containment Bad – African Oil
China’s investment in African oil has promoted economic development in Africa
BBC 10. (“Comparison of text of Chinese foreign minister's news conference 7 Mar.” British Broadcasting Corporation. March 8, 2010). LRH.
Moreover, China's cooperation with Africa covers both resource-rich countries and non-resource countries. I want to point out that Africa belongs to the African people. African people are the masters of Africa. All other people are only guests. We should respect the will and freedom of the hosts in their choosing their cooperation partners and friends. I believe to become friends and cooperative partners of the African people, the most basic thing is to do more concrete things and good things, and less of saying empty words. China's cooperation with Africa has helped translate its latent advantages in energy and resources into real advantages in development. We cooperate with the African people in building railroads, roads, bridges, and to improve their infrastructure, and to bring benefits to the people of Africa. Not long ago, Zambian President Banda said, "All can see China's investors have promoted Africa's economic development. They are the people who really help us." President Kagame of Rwanda s aid, "China's investment and loans have brought things that Africa needs." I believe these are fair evaluations.
Our evidence assumes theirs: China has been doing an increasing amount of infrastructure projects in Africa in response to criticisms about how they get their oil
Volman 9. (Daniel, Dir. of the African Security Research Project in Washington, DC. “CHINA, INDIA, RUSSIA AND THEUNITED STATES: The Scramble for African Oil and the Militarization of the Continent.” p9. Nordic Africa Institute. October 19, 2009). LRH.
It is also important to recognize that China and India do invest in projects besides resource extraction and that many of these projects can or may contribute significantly to the economic development of African countries. The Chinese investment plan for the DR Congo, for instance, includes the rehabilitation of the mining industry and the construction of major infrastructure projects including transportation and power pro duction projects. China’s increasing willingness to fund these projects demonstrates that China has been sensitive to criticism of its initial focus on resource extraction and that China does respond to pressure for the reform of its investment practices in Africa.
China’s ability to access African oil is good: the increased competition gives Africans more choices
Kasozi 9. (Prof. A.B.K. Kasozi, writer for The New Vision: Uganda’s leading website. “Africa: China's Entry Into the Scramble for Oil Could Benefit Continent.”
December 23, 2009. http://allafrica.com/stories/200912240163.html). LRH.
China's entry into the African market, especially the oil market, is advantageous to the African continent as it increases demand for African resources and gives Africans more choices. The competition should positively reduce the traditionally unequal trading relations the continent has had with her former colonial masters-cum-trading partners.
China Heg Good – US Alliances
Chinese assertiveness strengthens the commitments of Asian allies to the US
Solomon and Hayashi 2010
(Jay Solomon and Yuka Hayashi, Asia News Correspondents, “As China Swaggers, Neighbors Embrace U.S”, Wall Street Journal, May 25, http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704026204575266333652277148.html)
BEIJING—The Obama administration's talks with China this week won few new commitments from Beijing on global security challenges, particularly in looming showdowns with North Korea and Iran. But Beijing's increasing diplomatic and military assertiveness is unnerving its Asian neighbors in ways that could bolster the U.S.'s strategic position in the region. Fears that China is siding with Pyongyang over North Korea's alleged sinking of a South Korean naval vessel has rattled South Korea's and Japan's governments and re-energized their commitments to military alliances with the U.S., officials from both countries said.
China Heg Good – US Alliances
Increases in China’s influence and assertiveness lead to Asian countries seeking alliances and improved relations with the US
Solomon and Hayashi 2010
(Jay Solomon and Yuka Hayashi, Asia News Correspondents, “As China Swaggers, Neighbors Embrace U.S”, Wall Street Journal, May 25, http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704026204575266333652277148.html)
Further afield, countries such as Malaysia and Vietnam have also been seeking closer ties to the U.S. in recent months, according to U.S. and Asian diplomats. These countries are quietly voicing fears about China's expanding military and economic power. Analysts say that the more China has sought to assert its regional authority, the more many Asian leaders have pressed Washington to maintain, if not increase, its military and diplomatic presence. The U.S. "should be sending China thank you notes" for its handling of the North Korea issue, said Ralph Cossa, a former U.S. Air Force colonel who heads the Pacific Forum CSIS, a Hawaii-based think tank. China, he said, "very much played into the hands of both the U.S. and Hatoyama's interests." South Korea's strong ties with Beijing have been tested by China's reaction to Pyongyang's alleged torpedoing of the South Korean vessel, the Cheonan. China waited nearly a month to send condolences to South Korea for the loss of 46 of its servicemen. Chinese President Hu Jintao rankled Seoul by hosting North Korean leader Kim Jong Il this month in a string of meetings in Beijing. South Korea President Lee Myung-bak had visited China just days earlier and hadn't been told of Mr. Kim's visit, South Korean officials say. China's government has continued to indicate skepticism toward South Korea's formal accusation last week, backed by an international probe of the Cheonan's wreckage, that North Korea attacked the ship. North Korea has denied any involvement in the attack. China has "taken note of the result of the South Korean investigation," Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Jiang Yu said Tuesday. "We have also taken note of the [North Koreans'] response." Chinese scholars say Beijing's caution is warranted, in part to avoid the possibility that the North could be wrongly accused. China's growing assertiveness has rattled the region, as recent tensions between Beijing and Tokyo illustrate.
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