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We Meets:
2. Counter Interp: Oceans includes EEZ Robert Scher, former-Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense, Asian and Pacific Security Affairs,
Office of the Secretary of Defense, stated that September 26, 2014 Maritime Territorial and Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) Disputes Involving China: Issues for Congress
http://fas.org/sgp/crs/row/R42784.pdf
we reject any nations attempt to place limits on the exercise of high seas freedoms within an exclusive economic zones [sic] (EEZ). Customary to international law, as reflected in articles 58 and
87 of the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, guarantees to all nations the right to exercise within the EEZ, high seas freedoms of navigation and overflight, as well as the
traditional uses of the ocean related to those freedoms. It has been the position of the United States since 1982 when the Convention was established, that the navigational rights and freedoms

We note that almost 40% of

the worlds oceans lie within the 200 nautical miles EEZs, and it is essential to the global
economy and international peace and security that navigational rights and freedoms within
the EEZ be vigorously asserted and preserved.
applicable within the EEZ are qualitatively and quantitatively the same as those rights and freedoms applicable on the high seas.

Counter Standards:
3. Contextual definition: Robert Scher was the former deputy assistant director for Asia and the
Pacific and is reporting to congress in a report about EEZ and maritime territory.
4. Legal Definition: Scher quotes international law to describe how EEZs are part of the ocean
and therefore is the best definition to use for this round
Attack their standards:
5. Over limiting: The negs definition means that we cannot explore or develop 40% of the ocean
that is almost half the ocean. Most cases are also based on the EEZ and would kill over 90% of
aff cases including (list most popular cases)
6. Bright line: By voting for the negative, you destroy the bright line for affirmative cases. Voting
down our case on topicality would destroy the topicality of any aquaculture case, the most
common case used in CX debate over the current resolution.
7. Education: Our case actually increases the education value of todays debate. By debating
cases that deal within the EEZ, we are actually debating cases that deal with the most relevant
part of the ocean, that which is closest to our own country.
Attack their voters:
8. Fairness: The neg team has had all summer and a semester to prepare for affirmative debate
cases. That includes the most popular cases that will be dealing within the EEZ. If the neg has
failed to come up with the evidence to refute such a case, do not punish the affirmative team for
their laziness.