In order to pursue its leadership among the Third World countries (especially in African) and also to conduct its diplomatic competition with Taipei, Beijing has utilized foreign aid as an instrument to accomplishing her foreign policy goals. Since 1971, Taipei's primary foreign policy goals have also been to reenter the international community and to maintain or establish diplomatic relations with friendly countries. Foreign and competition thus illustrates the struggle across the Taiwan Strait to establish diplomatic relations in Africa. This article adopts three approaches--the contextual approach, aid distribution approach, and dyadic approach--as an analytical framework to analyze and explain the interaction between aid donors and recipients.