Go for it, SA. The west has disappointed us, time and time again, for decades, before, during and after apartheid. Black Africa's relationship with the West is nothing but exploitative and paternalistic, to put it mildly, using the likes of Tutu and Annan as their black faces.

Well said. even after so-called independance many in the west, and unfortunately, many Africans and African "leaders" still believe in the legitmacy of European and American "entitlement" to possess and to control the natural resources of their former colonies and, the right to dictate their domestic and international politics. The rise of China and of India and of others as global players is a golden opportunity for Africans to start dealing with other non-Western states and cultures which have a relatively clean slate in Africa with a new paradigm. This change is beginning of the long hoped for opportunity to replace the poison of Western "aid" with relationships which are based more upon the creation of win-win trading relationships. Once the West accepts the fact that in the modern world, it is no longer the only alternative, its behavior will change. If not, then so be it.

The West? The rot.

Are you not sick of this Western Tradition; this tradition of inconsistencies, a tradition founded on tolerance only for 'WHITES'?

That is the point: if the Chinese can stand up to the West, perhaps, they know a thing or two Africans don't: time to learn from them, then.

South Africa had no choice but to cozy up to China. The ANC leadership is riddled with corruption, incompetence and a sense of entitlement. The chinese don't seem to mind this as long as they make a buck. We in the west are tired of their immaturity and lack of business sense.

The "Chinese" lack "business sense"?

Fortunately, rationality winks the other way: the US Federal Reserve knows better; so does the US Treasury. All those US treasury bills in the bank vaults of the "immature" Chinese attest to their "lack of business sense"?

Please.

Forget racism, which is crap: if the Chinese were real commies, they could implode capitalism by just dumping their trillions of USDS in the world currency markets. But, alas, they lack "business sense."

Beyond money, which grows on trees in China, China's cultural tradition is more authentic than the West's; moreover, no "immature" Chinese ever an African enslaved or African land stole.

Glory then to immaturity and business naivete.