And then, there were cheerleaders in the Global South, who warmed the gallery by riding the moral high horse. China controls ninety per cent of rare earth metals and processes seventy per cent of the total global supply. At most, the US will want to be the single-shop supply chain for China from which to buy its oil. This may have been the de-dollarisation of global trade and finance, or a separate trade and security order to what the US had underwritten since WWII. Hegemons are never good, but it is always good to know the ones with which we can live.