In recent years there has been growing evidence of a renewal of the Chinese interest in Africa, not for ideological reasons, as in the past, but rather due to economic motivations. In this new framework, African Portuguese speaking countries (Angola, Mozambique, Guinea-Bissau and Cape Verde) are interesting case studies. This paper argues that the PRC foreign policy to Africa has substituted the ideological approach by an economic one, exporting to the third world its development model. In the particular case of African Portuguese speaking countries, China strategy takes advantage of a common denominator between those countries and a Chinese territory that was formerly under Portuguese administration: Macau..