China’s rapid economic growth allows it to emerge as a new economic power. Through the Belt and Road Initiative, its optimistic project has provided funding to many countries, including the Republic of Zimbabwe. Under the presidency of Robert Mugabe, this country established the ‘Look East’ policy in 2003. However, the foreign policy and national interest concept highlighted possible mechanisms to explain Zimbabwe’s foreign policy shift. This research also used Linkage’s theory, focused on its national interests and the leadership of Robert Mugabe. The author analyzed the causal factors that motivate Zimbabwe’s ‘Look East’ policy towards China. This study explored Robert Mugabe’s motivations, which affected establishment of a new policy. The author provided an explanatory qualitative research to analysis. This research hypothesis that many national and international goals drove Zimbabwe’s ‘Look East’ Policy towards China. Decolonization and liberation of Africa from Western intervention are internal factors, as it was the fight against racism and apartheid. External factors include the country’s experience with British colonization and sanctions in response to the Fast Track Land Reform Program. Consequently, Zimbabwe established the ‘Look East’ policy, required the government to rely on Eastern countries, particularly China. Findings would validate by reviewing the Islamic perspective on maslahah ‘ammah under the framework of fiqh siyasah