Well, don't stop there. Remember that it has an incredibly corrupt and inefficient government that attempts to govern a country that was artificially unified under the Spanish, comprised of over 7,000 islands, of which 2,000 are inhabited. Not to mention that there are many ethnic groups which do not necessarily get along and that the government spends a lot of time and money dealing with Communist separatists in the north and Islamic separatists in the south. Oh and don't forget that typhoons are a fairly regular occurrence for part of the year and that damage from the last serious typhoons has yet to be fully repaired. Maligayang pagdating sa Pilipinas!
My response wasn't meant as a dig against you or what I perceived to be the limitations of your knowledge, merely an elaboration and a somewhat bitter one. I'm trying to become more knowledgeable and aware of international politics historically and at the present, myself. To limit the scope, I focus mostly on relations with the U.S. and also countries I have personal connections to.