Silk+Road+CP

//** Counterplan **//** Text: The United States federal government should create a long-term strategy for the development of the Modern Silk Road where trade with Afghanistan is the foundation for this approach and generate incentives to invest in this project. This effort should be linked with the Northern Distribution Network. The United States federal government should pressure local governments to decrease unnecessary bureaucratic obstacles to trade. The United States federal government should pressure the Afghani government to levy official taxes on trade. **


 * Solvency: **

__Achieving the Modern Silk Road ….in the heart of Eurasia. __
 * Counterplan establishes a Modern Silk Road which is vital to longer term stability and success in Afghanistan **
 * Kuchins et al 10 ** [Andrew, Senior Fellow and Director of the CSIS Russia and Eurasia Program, Thomas Sanderson - Deputy Director and Senior Fellow in the CSIS Transnational Threats Project, David Gordon - Research Assistant and Program Coordinator, “Afghanistan: Building the Missing Link in the Modern Silk Road,” April, 2010, Washington Quarterly, http://www.twq.com/10april/docs/10apr_KuchinsSandersonGordon.pdf]

**Kuchins et al 10** [Andrew, Senior Fellow and Director of the CSIS Russia and Eurasia Program, Thomas Sanderson - Deputy Director and Senior Fellow in the CSIS Transnational Threats Project, David Gordon - Research Assistant and Program Coordinator, “Afghanistan: Building the Missing Link in the Modern Silk Road,” April, 2010, Washington Quarterly, http://www.twq.com/10april/docs/10apr_KuchinsSandersonGordon.pdf] __When we began our research ….prosperity and security for all. __2
 * The Modern Silk Road is vital to long-term Afghani growth and stability – Obama’s current strategy in Afghanistan will fail**