China has taught Africa a great lesson that peace and stability are vital in securing long-term growth, which also requires a unified national identity, Tanzanian veteran diplomat Charles A. Sanga says.
John Micklethwait believes there are advantages to being an outsider looking in on China.
China is now assuming responsibility as a new global pillar of stable growth after economically relying heavily on the United States, says Jonathan Story, emeritus professor of international political economy at Insead, the European business school.
Margaret MacMillan says there are dangers in the United States being too "smug" in response to China's rise.
"I am the oldest piece of furniture in this building," says Theo Sommer, the publisher and editor-at-large of Die Zeit, or The Time, one of Germany's most respected newspapers.
Former Italian prime minister Romano Prodi says Europe offers much "easier access" than the United States for China's efforts to continue to grow its international influence.
One of the UK's top family-business advisers is suggesting that as some of China's pioneering entrepreneurs of the 1970s reach retirement, they would do well to consider a more modern approach to their succession planning.
Joint investment projects with China, particularly in energy and infrastructure, are helping South Africa achieve its economic, industrial and social targets, says Maite Nkoana-Mashabane, South Africa's Minister of International Relations and Cooperation.
On a night in May 1979, as China was launching its reform and opening-up drive, a young soldier from Taiwan who is said to have braved the Taiwan Straits by swimming from the outlying island of Quemoy to the mainland using basketballs as a floatation device.
Wang Xiaoye, one of China's leading experts on anti-monopoly law, says foreign companies that feel wrongly accused of anti-competitive behavior need to take their cases to Chinese courts.
John Delury says modern Sinologists now have to explain China's success instead of being apologists for its backwardness.
From famously being headlined as "hopeless" in the Economist magazine in 2000, to being a continent of "lion economies" in 2014, Africa is economically on the move.
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