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As a candidate, the ex-businessman and star wrestler promised fairer distribution of Mongolia’s mineral wealth and less economic dependence on China

Mongolian stocks tanked in the aftermath of the first-round presidential contest, cast as a referendum on the ruling People’s Party (MPP) IMF program-related economic policies, before stabilizing for a 2% gain through end-June on the Bloomberg 20 leading companies index.

The recent visit by the Dalai Lama to a far-reaching nation of Mongolia has brought a new jigsaw puzzle in Mongolia-China relations.

The Roman Empire did it. The British Empire copied it in style. The Empire of Chaos has always done it. They all do it. Divide et impera. Divide and rule – or divide and conquer. It’s nasty, brutish and effective. Not forever though, like diamonds, because empires do crumble.

Over the last two decades, Russia has aggressively exploited and leveraged the nuclear legacy of the Cold War competition between the United States and the Soviet Union.

Mongolian Minister of Defense Dashdemberel Bat-Erdene led a military delegation to Moscow on February 17-21 for discussions that included preparations for their annual joint exercises. Included on the agenda was a visit to the 5th Separate Motorized Rifle Brigade of the Western Military District in the Moscow Region. Bat-Erdene met with Russian Federation Defense Minister, [...]

While Western financial blogs in 2012 decried the rise of Mongolian resource nationalism as well as continuing corruption in Mongolia’s mining sector, Australia, cautiously yet successfully, has maneuvered through the same environment to significantly increase its investment and political footprint.

On August 22-25, Dai Bingguo, Chinese State Councilor and top national security adviser to President Hu Jintao, will go to Ulan Bator to meet newly installed Mongolian government and parliamentary leaders.

Mongolia’s national transition from a communist regime to a democratic, free market state has been a rocky one.

…Россия списала 98% монгольского долга и пообещала «дать Монголии 375 миллионов рублей на вакцинацию скота для увеличения импорта мяса и молока на российский рынок». Также ходят слухи, что в качестве предварительного условия участия в горнодобывающем проекте Таван-Толгой (и строительства дорогой и экономически подозрительной железной дороги с этого комплекса в Россию) Россия поставила сотрудничество Монголии по [...]

Over the last two decades, Russia has aggressively exploited and leveraged the nuclear legacy of the Cold War competition between the United States and the Soviet Union. In places like Kazakhstan, Canada, Niger, Australia, the United States and Mongolia, Russia’s (AtomRedMetZoloto) Uranium Holding Co or ARMZ is seeking to dominate worldwide uranium production. The United [...]

ULAN BATOR – As Mongolia is cashing in on its enormous resource wealth, tensions are building between the Mongolian government and foreign investors. Strain is also growing in Mongolian society in general, as citizens push their government to closely regulate foreign businesses and more widely distribute revenue from resource deals.

MONTREAL – South Korea President Lee Myung-bak returned home last week from a tour of Mongolia, Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan that helped to raise his country’s profile and project its foreign economic diplomacy across Inner and Central Asia while significantly expanding Seoul’s ties with the three countries. In Ulan Bator, he signed a memorandum of understanding [...]

Консультации китайского министра иностранных дел Яна Цзечи (Yang Jiechi) в Москве в эти выходные рассматривались как подготовка почвы для визита председателя КНР Ху Цзиньтао в Россию в будущем месяце. На деле же, однако, они приняли характер исключительной важности для международной безопасности. Напряженные российско-китайские усилия по «координированию» их позиций по региональным и международным вопросам были выведены [...]

Москва – Когда провозгласившие себя стратегическими союзниками Россия и Китай в чем-то не соглашаются, они всячески маскируют свои противоречия, выпуская коммюнике с обещаниями найти взаимоприемлемые решения во время следующего раунда переговоров, либо после следующего. Если Москва и Пекин ссорятся, проявления дружеских чувств иссякают, и взаимное молчание может показаться оглушительным.

ran has been steadily increasing its ties with Mongolia and 2010 was a year of increased Iranian overtures toward Ulaanbaatar. In another manifestation of how democratic Mongolia and Iran are looking towards substantially developing their economic ties, it was announced in early December 2010 that a new Mongolian-Iranian joint venture entitled Bayan Meat, Ltd, had [...]

Президент Казахстана Нурсултан Назарбаев завершил на прошлой неделе официальный визит в Китай. Поездка подтвердила выдвинутую семь лет назад на страницах этого журнала теорию, что зарождается новая центрально-восточная Евразия, состоящия из России, Казахстана и Китая. За это время Астана укрепила отношения с Москвой. Теперь, в ходе трехдневного визита Казахстан расширил экономические связи с Китаем.

Turkey and Mongolia held their sixth Joint Economic Commission (JEC) meeting in Ulan Bator on October 26. Deputy Prime Minister Bulent Arinc headed the Turkish delegation, and Mongolia’s Environment and Tourism Minister, Luimed Gansukh, signed a memorandum of understanding to boost economic and commercial relations. Related protocols also signed during Arinc’s four-day trip concerned an [...]

Like the star gazers who last week watched the longest total solar eclipse of the 21st century, diplomatic observers had a field day watching the penumbra of big power politics involving the United States, Russia and China, which constitutes one of the crucial phenomena of 21st-century world politics.