Newbie into the forum, have read through the FAQ and CX&asiamiles website and still haven't found the answer I'm looking for.

Just got Green MPC with my AE CX Elite card (seems a bit poor considering people in other countries appear to be getting gold MPC instead).

2 questions:

1. Asiamiles that I have accrued, are these counted at the end of the year along with the MPC club miles when considering upgrades to the next MPC tier?

2. If I redeemed any of my asiamiles during the year, does it affect my MPC tier upgrade at the end of the year? i.e. if I earned 30k asiamiles in the year and redeemed 20k on a flight, will I still be bumped up to Silver?

Apologies if this seems basic, but been searching online for a while and still haven't found the answer to this.

Any advice from the veteran flyers would be much appreciated.