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  • As an Indonesian environmental activist, this council will engage in confrontational advocacy.

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    Confrontational advocacy is an aggressive approach that uses more extreme methods, commonly employed by groups/social movements. Some examples of confrontational advocacy include: strikes, blocking access, infiltrating certain formal events, attending and interrupting meetings, etc.

    Kalimantan Open Debate Pra-KDMI 2025 · Round 4 · 2025-06-28

  • This House Believes That it is in the interest of South Korea to retain Yoon-style diplomacy rather than return to Moon-style diplomacy with North Korea.

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    Yoon Suk-yeol, the recently impeached conservative president of South Korea, took a hard-line approach to North Korea—boosting ties with the US and Japan, militarizing the border, and rejecting dialogue. His predecessor, Moon Jae-in of the center-left Democratic Party, favored engagement through diplomacy, aid, and joint cross-border economic projects. Lee Jae-myung, also from the Democratic Party, is the newly elected president.

    Uhuru Worlds 2025 · Round 4 · 2025-06-27

  • This house supports South Korea decoupling its semiconductor and defense technology supply chains from Japan.

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    South Korean companies like Samsung and SK Hynix are collaborating with foreign companies to secure supplies and expand domestic production of key materials, increasing its imports of photoresist from Belgium, investing in domestic production of fluorinated polyimide, etc.

    Diliman Asian Parliamentary 2025 · Round 4 · 2025-06-23

  • This house believes that the Bank of Korea should establish a permanent emergency lending facility for small businesses.

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    A permanent emergency lending facility is a standing program by a central bank that provides fast, low-interest loans to targeted groups - like small businesses - during economic crises.

    Diliman Asian Parliamentary 2025 · Semifinals · 2025-06-23

  • This house believes that Latin American governments should significantly increase their issuance of sovereign panda bonds

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    A "panda bond" is a loan (bond) sold inside China's domestic bond market by a foreign borrower and paid back in Chinese yuan (RMB). Recently, the Brazilian government announced its plan to become the first Latin American sovereign to issue a panda bond.

    Colourful Summer Open 2025 · Gold Final · 2025-06-21

  • This house believes that Latin American governments should significantly increase their issuance of sovereign panda bonds

    Infoslide

    A "panda bond" is a loan (bond) sold inside China's domestic bond market by a foreign borrower and paid back in Chinese yuan (RMB). Recently, the Brazilian government announced its plan to become the first Latin American sovereign to issue a panda bond.

    Colourful Summer Open 2025 · Silver Final · 2025-06-21

  • This House prefers the values of 'zhen ji' to those of Western authorship.

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    In Chinese cultural tradition, "zhen ji" is the idea of creation as a continuous and collaborative process. Works and products do not hold value for being original or unique, but for their quality and capacity for transformation. Successive contributions, such as poetic seals (xian zhan) or technical improvements, increase the value of the creation. Replicas (fuzhi) can be as valuable as the "original," and there is no condemnation of plagiarism. This also underpins the concept of "shanzhai" present in Chinese technological culture, such as "Nokir" cell phones or parodic films, which often surpass the originals. In contrast, the Western view tends to value originality and individual authorship as essential to the value of a creation, both in art and in inventions, technology, and cultural products.

    Campeonato Mundial de Debates em Língua Portuguesa 2025 · Rodada 6 · 2025-06-19

  • This house supports the consolidation of fragmented agricultural land holdings through state-directed agrarian restructuring in the Mekong Delta

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    The Mekong Delta—which produces over half of Vietnam’s rice and a significant share of its aquaculture exports—has historically been highly fragmented, with most farms averaging less than 0.5 hectares. A significant proportion of land holdings are held by smallholder households from ethnic minority communities, such as the Khmer and Hoa people, who occupy land without proper documentation and rely on informal recognition by local authorities or customary claims. Typically, these households cultivate various crops (e.g., rice, corn, tapioca, etc.) on their land. The region is experiencing rapid climate change and natural calamities. Recently, the Vietnamese government started pursuing state-directed agrarian restructuring, promoting the consolidation of small, scattered plots into larger farms through state-led land auctions and planned rural relocation programs.

    Guangzhou United Asian Debating Championships 2025 · Semifinals · 2025-06-17

  • This house opposes the Grab-GoTo Merger.

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    As of March 20, 2025, Grab Holdings Ltd., a leading Southeast Asian ride- hailing and delivery company headquartered in Singapore, is actively pursuing the acquisition of Indonesian tech conglomerate GoTo Group, which is a dominant player in Indonesia's digital economy, providing services such as ride-hailing and e-commerce.

    Guangzhou United Asian Debating Championships 2025 · Semifinals · 2025-06-17

  • This house believes that the Japanese feminist movement should support the criminalization of Enjo kōsai

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    Enjo kōsai is a type of transactional relationship where older men give money and/or luxury gifts to attractive young women in exchange for sexual favors in Japan. While Enjo kōsai is not explicitly illegal, Japanese laws prohibit paying a person under 18 for obscene acts and juvenile delinquency.

    Guangzhou United Asian Debating Championships 2025 · Round 6 · 2025-06-17

  • This house believes that Dissanayake's Government should return back land previously acquired by the Sri Lankan Military after the 2009 liberation war back to the native Tamils (Areas within the Jaffna Peninsula, Trincomalee, Sampur, etc.)

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    After the Civil War ended in 2009, the Sri Lankan Military acquired vast swathes of land owned by the native minority Tamil population (around 30,000 acres) in the Northern and Eastern Provinces of Sri Lanka. Anura Dissanayake, the newly elected President of Sri Lanka promised to return back land to the Tamils in his electoral campaign. Military bases like Palaly and Kankesanthurai are located in Jaffna, while Trincomalee and Sampur also host major military installations and are declared high-security zones.

    Guangzhou United Asian Debating Championships 2025 · Round 4 · 2025-06-17