The reemergence of Tropical Africa and China was the most worldwide historical change of the 20th century. During this process, China and Africa discovered each other and a source of distant strength to rely on. While the two share different cultural backgrounds and development paths, a common modern destiny has seen the two forge an increasingly close modern relationship. Over the last decades the nature, form and scale of this relationship has comprehensively expanded. Against the backdrop of an international system that has been controlled by the West for hundreds of years, the Sino-African relationship is not only important for these two regions, it has the power to change the entire international structure itself.