This chapter provides a refreshing and productive exploration of the ‘Sinofication’ of Africa-Chinese relations through the global trade of surveillance technologies. The chapter answers the question: In what ways are Chinese surveillance technology companies influencing African surveillance practices and cultures? Through interviews with a myriad of actors ranging from policymakers, former parliamentarians, digital technology experts, lawyers and human rights activists, the chapter makes two interrelated arguments. It argues, firstly, that the growth of Chinese surveillance technologies in Africa is part of a ‘nuclear option’ strategy by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) to eliminate and obliterate other surveillance technology players from the Global North and other parts of the world seeking a place in the burgeoning African surveillance market. Secondly, the CCP seeks to use its surveillance start-up techs as ‘menus of manipulation’ in its growing design to control Africa in the ‘new scramble for Africa’. It concludes by noting the inherent dynamics of this growing relationship and how it is likely to morph in the future.