For the purposes of this debate, a video game is distinct with simpler digital interactive apps such as Duolingo, Kahoot, etc. Lately, various educational ministries in Asia have begun to further explore (or at least seriously consider) tapping into the popularity of video games as means to augment the quality of education.

The Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP), also known as TPP11 or TPP-11, is a trade agreement between Australia, Brunei, Canada, Chile, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore, and Vietnam. It evolved from the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), which never entered into force due to the withdrawal of the United States.

The 2021 Texas power crisis involved three severe winter storms sweeping across the United States on February, a massive electricity generation failure in the state of Texas, and resultant shortages of water, food, and heat. More than 4.5 million homes and businesses were left without power some for several days. Texas Governor Greg Abbott's appointees to the Public Utility Commission of Texas ended a contract with the Texas Reliability Entity. Texas Reliability Entity is a council, a consortium of sorts, of private actors managing the electricity provision to the area of Texas during this crisis.

Antinatalism, or anti-natalism, is a philosophical position that assigns a negative value to birth. Antinatalists argue that humans should abstain from procreation because it is morally and pragmatically wrong (some also recognize the procreation of other sentient beings as morally wrong).

Secession refers to the process of a region or province formally withdrawing membership and separating from a federal nation, to form their own sovereign state, with their own separate government. The secession of a region usually requires a referendum (a vote by the public in that region) to be accepted as legitimate. For purposes of this debate, a protracted conflict refers to (sometimes violent) conflict between rebel group(s) and the state that has been prolonged for some time.