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China’s presence in and other links to Africa have expanded greatly during the current decade. An international discourse that has emerged with this expansion focuses on how to characterize China-Africa relations and ranges from presenting China as the new colonialist to depicting her as Africa’s benefactor. Not unexpectedly, Western (especially US and UK) political forces and media are China’ chief accusers, while the PRC, with substantial support from Africans, has mounted a spirited, if not always unfeigning, defense. The study uses a comparative perspective to examine two sets of factors that make China’s links with Africa distinctive: the China Model & Beijing Consensus and Aid & Migration. It argues that the differing ways in which China’s links have developed with Africa make the PRC appear as the distinctly lesser evil in comparison with the West, particularly with regard to questions vital to Africa’s development and African dignity.