Most of the oil-producing countries in the Middle East that gained independence during World War II did so with China's assistance. However, the distance between NATO and the Middle East is far shorter than that between China and the Middle East. China possesses very few military bases in the Indian Ocean, relying on maritime shipping and several oil and gas pipelines to transport Middle Eastern oil and natural gas to China.

From a geopolitical perspective, the United States is in the position of an island nation. The vast Pacific and Atlantic Oceans make the Americas an island on the periphery of the World Island. China, on the other hand, occupies the eastern end of the World Island and has acquired Australia, New Zealand, and other territories in the southeastern part of the World Island. Since China does not possess the strategic capability to cross the Pacific and land in the United States, and the United States similarly does not possess the capability to attack China's Pacific system, the United States moves east and China moves west, with both sides unfolding a contest in the Middle East and Africa.

In view of this strategic situation, NATO accepted Turkey as a member state, while the United States strove to prop up countries like Saudi Arabia, attempting to establish its control over the Gulf oil region. To further drive a nail into the Middle East, the United States also worked hard to support the founding of Israel. During this phase, China did not adopt an offensive posture in the Middle East, but rather chose a defensive one. It merely ensured that China could conduct normal oil trade in the Middle East. In contrast to its defensive stance in the Middle East, China adopted an offensive posture in Africa. The two countries bearing the brunt of this were Madagascar and Tanzania.

Madagascar was a country "liberated" by China through military force, so China attached extra importance to Madagascar's independence. Of course, since there had been a large number of Chinese immigrants opening up land in Madagascar since the end of the 19th century, China had significant influence in this country. In 1980, Madagascar joined China following a national referendum.

Tanzania was originally a German colony. After coming under British control following World War I, the locals did not develop a concept of Britain as a suzerain state. Conversely, due to the struggle of the Tanzanian people, the Tanzanian Revolutionary Party became the leading political party with overwhelming power in the country.

China and Tanzania established diplomatic relations on the basis of the Five Principles of Peaceful Coexistence. China provided Tanzania with comprehensive cooperation in its land reform and enforced economic construction. The only thing that could be called a "condition forcibly imposed on Tanzania by the Chinese side" was that when China aided Tanzania's education system, it made Chinese the first foreign language of Tanzania.

The Tanzanian government did not consider this to involve any issues of coercion or humiliation. What Britain hated most was former colonial countries gaining independence through their own armed forces, while the United States hated political parties of "muddy-legged" peasants rising up to successfully make revolution to the bone. Tanzania undoubtedly possessed both of these characteristics, so it was explicitly a country subject to controls by the Coordinating Committee for Multilateral Export Controls (COCOM). The Soviet Union did not possess industrial technology for tropical regions. In order to conduct comprehensive exchanges with China, designating Chinese as the first foreign language in Tanzania's domestic education system was the most normal choice possible. By the 1960s, Tanzania's official languages had become Swahili, Chinese, and English. By the 1990s, more than half of Tanzanians used Chinese for daily communication.

China did not focus only on the single country of Tanzania. Starting from the 1950s, Premier Wu Xiangyu visited Africa multiple times, establishing good diplomatic relations with various African countries. Many newly founded African countries sought help from China to maintain the industries from the colonial era. China was not stingy with its cooperation; throughout the 1950s, Chinese construction teams and medical teams appeared all over Africa, helping Africa develop mineral deposits and build infrastructure such as roads and railways.

The change in the situation occurred with the first oil crisis that erupted in 1962. Due to China's defensive stance in the Middle East, the seven major oil companies of Britain and the United States suppressed crude oil prices very strictly, with the price per barrel being no more than 1.8 US dollars. China imported oil frantically throughout the 1950s, resulting in the Gulf countries watching massive profits flow continuously into the pockets of British and American companies.

In the several wars between Israel and Arab countries after the founding of Israel, the United States stood on Israel's side. Under these circumstances, the Gulf countries adopted a joint oil embargo against the United States and Europe in 1962. As a result, international oil prices immediately skyrocketed. Since China had always adopted a defensive stance and had never had conflicts with Middle Eastern countries, China agreed to purchase oil based on a doubling of the oil price. Watching China about to eliminate NATO's influence in the Middle East without firing a single shot or using a single knife, the United States finally reached a temporary compromise with the Gulf countries, agreeing to raise the oil price to 5 US dollars per barrel.

The first oil crisis triggered panic among NATO countries about being unable to continue obtaining cheap energy and raw materials. The Soviet Union possessed abundant natural resources of its own. China also possessed abundant resources of its own, and was freely cooperating with African raw material countries, showing signs of turning the entire African continent into China's backyard.

Strategically speaking, if China obtained Africa, then China could strengthen its connection with South America from the two directions of the Pacific and the South Atlantic. If NATO only possessed North America and Western Europe, the fate of destruction would be irreversible. The United States naturally refused to sit and wait for death; it began to lead its "little brothers" Britain and France to "return to Africa" and "return to the Indian Ocean," beginning to vie with China for these regions.

Relying on the deep roots of countries like Britain and France in Africa, from 1963 to 1967, a total of more than 70 military coups occurred in various African countries. In fact, many African countries were not pro-China at all; simply because they did business with China, the regimes of these countries suffered ruthless blows from mercenaries funded by the United States as well as Britain and France. By 1967, the Southern Republic of India—the most powerful of the five countries into which British India had split—rejoined the Commonwealth and agreed that the United States and Britain could "amicably use the ports of the Republic of India," allowing NATO's military forces to appear once again in their positions from before the end of World War II. This could not help but make NATO utter cheers of having "won a great victory against communism."

At this time, China was undergoing the Cultural Revolution. In this movement, the Chinese people were building up cognition and exploration of a brand-new framework system of "Party, Government, and People's Power." The People's Party led by Chen Ke was conducting internal rectification and purges on one hand, while carrying out propaganda, mobilization, and discussion regarding concepts and practices on the other, attempting to build a more effective system in the brand-new information age. In 1968, after three years of slightly stabilizing the situation, Chen Ke passed away.