Answer:
Economic and global power.
Explanation:
As with all colonies in the colonial period of history, they were sources of both cheap raw materials and outlets for the (expensive) finished products. They also provide a physical extension of the military and political power of the colonizing nations.
Philippines is a chain of Islands because The country itself consists of islands.
China's resistance to Japan is one of the great untold stories of World War II. Though China was the first Allied power to fight the Axis, it has received far less credit for its role in the Pacific theater than the United States, Britain or even the Soviet Union, which only joined the war in Asia in August 1945.
