I'm not a fan of "the village", so holding it up as an aspirational ideal kind of dooms the article to irrelevance, for me.

Sure, per dose.

Not that I'm a fan of the Templeton Foundation or their rumored goals, but:

Well, it's certain that we spy on almost everyone, absolutely including the PRC. Is the X-37 being used this way? Maybe, it's plausible anyway. It would be kinda cool.

There are some degrees of bloody fucking killer-ness, though... Canada has done some ugly things in it's history, but the place isn't exactly Pol Pot City, for example.

"However, the captain of the submarine attached to the carrier battlegroup would really rather not go around actively pinging the aquatic environment"

It springs up everywhere all on its own - we call it "tyranny and forced labor". Just because there wasn't any money doesn't mean the Inca Empire was ST:TOS...

"In the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, the Inca Empire was the largest South America had ever known."

Shouldn't that be something like Taikonauts, and does the Moon really count as "deep space"? It's still in Earth orbit....

"Oh, and those Kilos you so easily dismissed?

"After all, when you have 5000 years of culture backing you up, you don't have to go to war every two weeks just to prove to the world how "super" you are."

"You do realize that roughly one fifth of the humanity lives in China?"

Telephone transmission/reception fidelity, durability, and longevity.

"A nuclear option to take out a carrier would completely destroy it and probably a lot it's support ships around it. It would be a desperate move, but it's not without tactical merit. It also puts the fear of god into whoever is going up against you because you're crazy enough to do such a thing."

"A correction: the Chinese navy possesses 12 Russian-built Kilo class submarines which are as silent as shadows "

"It is the year 2251. All is well on Earth – food is plentiful, climate ills are cured, and war is nonexistent."

"Personal aggrandizement? Dude's sitting in a jail cell occasionally being tortured, and he's not likely to ever see the light of day again."