Basic science has it that there exists inter-relationship between simple and complex organisms. It follows the order of green plants producing food through the process of photosynthesis for herbivores (plants eating animals) to feed on. Carnivores (fresh eating animal) then feed on herbivores to ensure their survival.
In this matter of energy transfer from plants to herbivores and from herbivores to carnivores, it can be said that carnivores, being at the top of the food chain, suffer from superiority complex.
If this paradigm is applied to the world's socio-politico-economic order, Africa and South America would represent the green plants, the basic producers of energy. The Asian countries including the People's Republic of China are the herbivores while United States (US) and the European Union (EU) represent the carnivores.
Because the present world economic order puts US and EU at the top rungs of the economic ladder, they suffer from superiority complex just as the carnivores. They think the world belongs to them and they should set out the standard behaviour on Planet Earth.
The emergence of People's Republic of China as an economic giant has changed the equation considerably and this has sent shock waves through the Western World.
China has translated its advantage in huge population size of 1.3 billion people and natural resources into socio-economic development, and
has thereby built sufficient clout to resist manipulations of US and EU.
China has not only gained economic independence but it is gradually linking it up with the economic liberation of the African Continent through Sino-Africa Partnership, which is based on mutual respect and not "master-servant relationship".
As a result, China through its symbiotic relationship with African countries continues to enjoy energy flow from Africa, but the same cannot be said of the transfer of energy between the herbivores and the carnivores.
The close collaboration between China and Africa has caused a sharp break in the food chain with the result that U.S. and EU countries are now struggling to survive. Trade between China and Africa has increased and Africans' confidence in China has risen to a higher pedestal. The name China now rings a bell in every household in Africa.
Interestingly, developing countries, China inclusive, still depend mainly on plants for their food while the West depends mostly on animal products for their food.
The recent media report that US steel industries were collapsing because China was not exporting the raw materials needed to produce steel in US, gives credence to a break in the food chain in all shades of development.
US recent criticism that China was trading with some corrupt African countries was a clear case of the pot calling the kettle black. Who does not know that when it suits US it does not only trade with corrupt regimes but go to every extent to prop them up? Talk of Mobutu Sese Seko of erstwhile Zaire; Omar Bongo of Gabon; Sani Abacha of Nigeria; José Eduardo dos Santos
of Angola and others, who were propped up by US because they played the game the US way.
Indeed does the US have the right to tell China to abandon its policy of non-interference in the internal affairs of countries she is dealing with? Why should US attempt to hold the Chinese Government responsible if
Google is losing its competition with Baidu for the Chinese ICT market?
US must accept the fact that China has arrived on the world scene in a big way and there is no way US can bully China. If US culture allows all kinds of information to get to their people irrespective of their age and another country thinks information going to her people should be managed, what is wrong with that? Should every country be run in accordance with US
world view?
In any case what good thing has US offered the world? Is it human rights that allow men to marry men? Is it human rights that allow women to marry women? Is it human rights that allow people to carry guns to kill people at the least provocation?
The US approach to international issues leads to the question of who made US a judge over other countries. One would wonder what could be US reaction if gay marriage had started in Africa or China. Such development would have been described by US as animalistic and barbaric but once it emanated from US, it is a mark of civilization and respect for human rights.
Statistics available show that many African Leaders view Western democracy sweeping across the Continent as an alien imposition as evidenced
by the post-election violence in some African countries, like Kenya.
It is even more disturbing for foreign elections observers to punctuate their reports on election conducted in some parts of Africa with the statement; "the election was free and fair by African standards'. Who does not know what happened in Florida and the election of George W. Bush as President of US?
The China-African Partnership has come to stay. China must develop immunity to Western media negative reportage. China should see herself as the "unshakable shaker". China now has the economic potential to push the US
into recession if necessary but US cannot do the same to China. China would continue to grow from strength to strength notwithstanding the criticisms.
China had been dominant in the world for more than 4,000 years, and just disappeared behind the clouds because it missed the industrial revolution. China has now re-emerged from behind the clouds and has taken a
giant leap into the ICT world and nothing can be done about it. World Bank and International Monetary Fund (IMF) policies have to a large extent impoverished most African countries. On the contrary, China's trade policy with Africa has assisted most Africans to acquire the
necessities of life because their items are affordable and consistent with the income of the average African.
As water finds its own level, so should Sino-Africa Partnership be allowed to find its own level without external influences from US and EU.