Justin Trudeau, Mexico's Enrique Pena Nieto vie for #APEChottie at Philippines summit

With theAPEC summit underway in the Philippines, leaders from some of the world's most powerful countries have gathered in Manilato talk trade, development andeconomy.

But there's a decidedly different summit discussion playing out on social media, spawned by the attendance of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto which world leader is more attractive?

• The world meets Justin Trudeau and likes what it sees

The debate iscentredaround the hashtag#APEChottie, which firsttook offon Twitter in the PhilippinesTuesday morning, thoughit hasnow spread globally.

Many Twitter users arebillingTrudeauasan endearing "Canadian bae", whilePena Nietois being pegged as the Mexican papi, or father.

Sure, it's an unconventional way of getting people to pay attention to the APEC proceedings...

... but it'sgot people talking. The popularity of the hashtagtook quite a few people by surprise.

Thistweet roughly translates into "My face when I discoveredthis hashtag."

Many swooned for Mexico's papiPenaNieto...

...but a rough count of thehashtag support showed more were in favour ofCanada's 'bae'.

Trudeau's physical appearance has been largely talked about in the international press since he won the election in October.

The Mirror, a UK-based newspaper,evenran a piece titled"Is Justin Trudeau the sexiest politician in the world?"

Some had other ideas in mind for the 'hottie' of the summit.

That's a photo of host leaderBenigno Aquino III, the president of thePhilippines.

Through all thatadmiration, there were some naysayers,'disgusted'by the 'madness' of it all.

The best way to sum it up? Overwhelming and confusing.

The APEC leaders summit continues in the Philippines until Thursday, while the APEC CEO Summit wraps up Wednesday.