![]() ![]() There were five multilateral peace operations active in the region in 2021-the same number as in 2020. There was a new ceasefire between India and Pakistan regarding their ongoing interstate armed conflict over Kashmir, as well as a slight thawing in China–India relations. The Republic of Korea (South Korea) and the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK, or North Korea), China and the USA agreed ‘in principle’ to declare a formal end to the Korean War. Only a few of the armed conflicts were being addressed by ongoing or new peace processes in 2021. Three trends remained a cause for concern in 2021: ( a) the growing Chinese–United States rivalry, combined with an increasingly assertive Chinese foreign policy ( b) the various threats and conflicts falling within the broad terrorism/counterterrorism rubric, involving both states and non-state actors and ( c) the ongoing impact of weather and climate hazards. Total conflict-related fatalities in Asia and Oceania increased by 59 per cent in 2021 (having fallen by nearly 50 per cent in 2020). Internationalized civil war), India (low-intensity, combined interstate border and subnational armed conflicts) and Pakistan (high-intensity, combined interstate border and subnational armed conflicts) four were in South East Asia-a major armed conflict in Myanmar and low-intensity, subnational armed conflicts in Indonesia, the Philippines and Thailand and there was a new low-intensity interstate conflict in Central Asia between Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan. Three were in South Asia-Afghanistan (major Nine countries in Asia and Oceania experienced active armed conflicts in2021, two more than in 2020.
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