UNITED States Vice President Kamala Harris recently visited the country with much fanfare. The second highest official of the most powerful country in the world does not visit other countries on a whim. The Philippines is just the 31st largest US trading partner. Meanwhile, the US is one of our top three. It means that our country is not really that important to the United States. Thus, Harris is here on a different matter. We are not important per se, but that matter is.

And that agenda is China.

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