PRC sure does seem to be compensating for something with this whole "power" thing and it's paranoia with people undermining it. The entire world just needs to calm down with this whole "power" thing, because frankly, it's pointless. Fighting for control and influence over a portion of a thin crusty liveable layer of a tiny molten marble flying through a deadly vacuum around an average star on the outer edge of a spiral arm of an average galaxy. Think about that and then about what the fuck are people fighting over. That's why the science and technology side of Hacker News is so much more interesting. Scientists have known of our insignificance for ages. Politicians still haven't realized, and perhaps never will. It's like what Edgar Mitchell said, you'd just like to take them by the scruff of the neck to the moon and show them the Earth and say "Look at that you son of a bitch".