Honestly it’s about time raw material prices, and the labor that goes into their extraction, was appropriately compensated (though the future and bedrock of any stable, independent society must be industrialization and moving up the value chain).

China and Russia have already been doing excellent work siding with and assisting the global south in escaping the systemic economic traps that the west has employed against them. But now more than ever, with the present imperial overreach and economic crises on the horizon, this should be intensified.