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PRESERVING MONGOLIAN SOVEREIGNTY AND CULTURE
MONDAY, JUNE 19, 2017

The sovereignty of Mongolia is under siege.

The People’s Republic China (PRC) regards Mongolia as its “Ukraine”i, ii. Covertly the PRC has ambitions not simply to make Mongolia a client or puppet state, as it was under Soviet domination, but to integrate it with the PRC through a “voluntary” referendum, just as the Russians engineered the assimilation of Crimea in 2014.

This was Mao Tse-tung’s prophecy and intent once China could establish parity or surpass Soviet military and economic might.iii

As the world’s attention is focused on China’s South China Sea claims, an asymmetrical war is also being conducted by the PRC to achieve Mongolian assimilation. Russian influence is being marginalized, as are Mongolia’s ‘3rd Neighbor’ partners such as Japan, South Korea, Germany, and the USiv. China’s penetration and Sinification of Mongolia’s natural resources, financial system, businesses, infrastructure, media, social media, culture, religion, security, electoral system, and political body are each battle fronts in a multi-pronged asymmetrical campaign to isolate and then assimilate Mongoliav.

Preserving Mongolian sovereignty demands a global awareness of the PRC’s covert intent. An education campaign is needed both within Mongolia and globally to counter a) the PRC’s revisionist historical justification for claiming Mongolia as their Crimeavi and b) the PRC’s effort to isolate Mongolia and control all aspects of Mongolia’s economy, resources, politics, and culture.

Without a counter-campaign Mongolia will in a decade’s time be assimilate and Sinicized like Inner Mongolia and Manchuriavii. Mongolians will become strangers in their own land.

China’s assimilation of Mongolia will not only be a tragedy for the Mongolian people and the hope for Central Asian democracy, but a threat to the balance of power in Eurasia.

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i In negotiations in 1956 between the Soviets and the PRC, the Soviet negotiator, Sergo Mikoyan, and CCP Politburo member Liu Shaoqi and Premier Zhou Enlai, the Chinese hoped to connect the granting of Mongolia independence with the question of Stalin’s “mistakes.” The Chinese requested the Soviets cancel Mongolia independence in the wake of Khrushchev’s condemnation of Stalin’s personality cult. Liu Shaoqi drew a parallel between Mongolia and Ukraine. He declared that Mongolia was China’s “Ukraine”. Source: “New Documents on Mongolia and the Cold War” by Sergey Radchenko, Wilson Center Cold War International History Project Bulletin, Issue 16, page 343 and Document 1,
https://www.wilsoncenter.org/sites/default/files/CWIHPBulletin16_p4_1.pdf.

ii In 26 February 1989 Deng Xiaoping in a revealing complaint to President Bush showed enduring Chinese views on Mongolia in regard to how Stalin had stolen or severed Mongolia from China. “Memorandum of Conversation between George H. W. Bush and Chairman Deng Xiaoping in Beijing”, Wilson Center, February 26, 1989,
http://digitalarchive.wilsoncenter.org/document/116507.pdf?v=9e009d7beac46b3b33fcaafd3bcd08f5.

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