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China’s influence in Africa, implications for the West Today it is generally acknowledged that the conditions for Africa’s development have dramatically changed over the last years. The continent’s original dependency relationship with the USA and especially Europe has been traded in for a relationship with another economic and political alternative: China. For the last 10 years, China’s appearance on the continent of Africa has grown to surprising height. With help of the government in Beijing, numerous Multinational Corporations (MNCs) are racing through the continent in search of possible contract closures and deals for natural resources. The Western hegemonies, the US and Europe, notice their influence in many African states is declining more and more. The main question for them is what strategy could be applied best in anticipation of the Chinese rise in Africa. By applying literature review on published articles on this topic, I shall try to answer this question. First, an overall view on the current situation in Africa concerning the rise of China will be given. Then I shall discuss the strategy Beijing uses to develop their influence, and what strategies to gain influence the Western hegemonies have applied so far in Africa. Furthermore, I will show what the Western point of view is on China’s appearance and give possible strategies on how to deal with this emergence. Also, with the help of a simple model on the appropriation of natural resources by Crutzen and Holton (2010), I will show what strategy would be optimal for ‘the West ’ to behave like in the scramble for resources with China. My aim of this research is to give a clear overall view on ‘the fight ’ between the world’s largest hegemonies about who will get the biggest share of resources