Abstract

92 Asia-Pacific Myanmar (EAOs) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95 Philippines (NPA) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122 Philippines (ASG) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108 Southern Thailand . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129 Philippines (Moro) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114 Thai bomb-squad members inspect the site of a motorcycle-bomb attack Regional Introduction China’s geostrategic interests, as they occur in the The armed conflicts in the Asia–Pacific region are territories of major Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) discrete theatres with no significant connections, projects, where two of its economic corridors pass. and remained so throughout 2018. Accordingly, The Philippines’ internal conflicts have important Myanmar, the