High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! This article deals with activities of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency in the Asia/Pacific geopolitical area. In this region we include East Asia, Central Asia (except Afghanistan), Southeast Asia (but not South Asia and Southwest Asia), and Oceania. East Asia includes China, Japan, Korea and the Philippines while Central Asia includes Kazakhstan, Mongolia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan. Southeast Asia, meanwhile, includes Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam although Burma is included in South Asia. Oceania, on the other hand, includes Australia, New Guinea, New Zealand and Papua New Guinea. For Afghanistan, Myanmar/Burma, South Asia and Southwest Asia, see CIA activities by region: Near East, North Africa, South and Southwest Asia.