UK minister visits Aquino

1. HUMAN TRAFFICKING is the illegal trade of human beings mainly for the purposes of commercial sexual exploitation or forced labor.  – while there are Filipinos that are being illegally trafficked it is hardly the Philippine’s main trade. Yes Human Work Force is our main trade but mind you sir, majority of the Filipinos working and/or living abroad legally, voluntarily and with all dignity went to wherever they maybe right now, including myself and the more than 3 million other legal Fil-Am in the US. (not to mention millions more that overstayed here).  So please watch your mouth of non-sense.
2. Of course, anyone who does business can be more profitable with China compared to any other place if you talk about market value considering their billion population and monetary reserves. Plus! the low labor costs which they can afford due to population and low quality output (there’s divisoria like places where low quality Chinese products are anywhere in world) So, compare China again to the Philippines is like comparing apples and oranges.
3. “Emerging power” was used by the DFA office not by the writer he was merely quoting.  But even if it’s true that the UK considers the Philippines as Emerging Power in South East Asia, it has a basis politically to say the least.  Not because the country is militarily inept means it cannot wield power, remember the old saying “pen is mightier than the sword”