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Will China Take Advantage of Future EU-US Rifts?
Beijing hopes to benefit from tensions created by the Trump administration, but China will have to change its own approach to capitalize.
We’ve Moved!!!
After many years of having this blog hosted at UBC, we have nomadized (as of early 2025) to our own domain, www.mongoliafocus.com. Please update your bookmarks accordingly. To keep up …
North Korea in 2025: Make Money Not War
A country on the precipice of war with its neighbors would not be selling arms and sending troops off to fight in a distant conflict.
When Hollywood Comes to Cambodia, with Nick Ray
From “Tomb Raider” to “Banged Up Abroad” and “37 Heavens.”
Road Numbering
By Julian Dierkes I do really like my Mongolia countryside drives, whether I am along for the ride as a passenger or driving myself.   View this post on Instagram …
Kevin Rudd on Xi Jinping
“Xi has significantly moved the ideological needle -- making China more Leninist, more Marxist and more nationalist.”
Khurelsukh at UN General Assembly
By Julian Dierkes, Alexander Morrow and Anshika Srivastava In 2021, Pres. U Khurelsukh spoke at the UN General Assembly for the first time as president. He has returned every year …
Quick Observations On the Eve of Local Elections 2024
By Marissa J. Smith While I was in Mongolia this summer for the 2024 Parliamentary Elections and was discussing the results for third parties, some interlocutors expressed enthusiasm for the …
Can Japan Become the ‘World’s Most AI-friendly Country’?
As the world faces rapid change and competition over AI, Japan’s step-up is significant for the East Asian region but also the wider world.
The Risks of North Korean Provocations in the West Sea
The West Sea’s strategic and economic significance for both Koreas increases the likelihood of future provocations.
Guest Post: Mongolian Hoops Dreams — Creation of Soft Power Through Basketball
By Benjamin Nuland Basketball was introduced to Mongolia in the 1960s by the Russians and Chinese. More recently, basketball has become Mongolia’s most popular sport, but Mongolians’ associations are primarily …
Cambodia’s Leader Says Arrested Protesters Were Trying to Overthrow the Government
The government has arrested an estimated 94 people for protesting an economic agreement with Vietnam and Laos.
Change in the Countryside June 2024
By Julian Dierkes For some years, I have now traced visible changes in Ulaanbaatar on my periodic visits. I’ve kept a similar list for countryside changes, somewhat less regular as …
How Unfortunate: Putin Visits Mongolia
By Julian Dierkes Once again, geopolitical realities are catching up with Mongolia and there is very little the government of Mongolia can do about it, even if it wanted to. …
More on Oyun-Erdene’s Cabinet
By Julian Dierkes and Bulgan B Marissa Smith has already provided an overview of the new cabinet. Here, we’re adding some more information in cabinet members as we had done …
Editor’s Note
This issue of China Currents is eclectic in nature, but the featured articles all relate to how China is trying to influence the world, how China’s historical experience weighs on... …
Public Diplomacy Through Social Media: the Chinese Way
The Information and Communication Technology revolution has transformed the very nature of contemporary public diplomacy (PD), which M. Holmes defines as “the use of digital information communication technologies, such as... …
India’s Outward Foreign Direct Investment in the context of China’s Belt and Road Initiative
Introduction1 India’s development strategy in recent years has been “India for India” and “Make in India.” A form of self-reliance, or “strategic autonomy,” India’s policy approach is a reaction to... …
The Global Spectacle of Netflix’s 3 Body Problem
Liu Cixin’s 刘慈欣 2006 novel, The Three-Body Problem 三体, first found a global audience through the publication of Ken Liu’s English translation in 2014. The novel, the first in a... …
Guest Comment: Mongolia’s Democratic Party Gambit into Government
By Sugar Munkhtsooj The Mongolian parliamentary elections of 2024, the first since constitutional amendments increased the number of parliamentarians from 76 to 126, concluded in June with results that largely …
The Risks of Japan’s Aging Democracy
Does an aging population affect economic policy, and by extension, undermine trust in the democratic political system?
CWGP and National Coalition Results
By Julian Dierkes Beyond the DP’s success, the second great surprise (to me) of the election results was that the Civil Will Green Party re-entered parliament with four seats and …
Guest Post: Mongolian Participation in the Paris 2024 Olympic Games
By Zorig Bat-Erdene Mongolia completed its participation in the Paris 2024 Olympic Games from July 26 to August 11, 2024. A total of 32 athletes competed in 9 different sports: …
Guest Post: A free but not a Fair Election: It Was All About Money
By Bat-Orgil Altankhuyag, Batkhishig Gankhuyag Mongolia recently conducted its tenth competitive election since 1990 in June 2024 (the first multi-party elections). In general, various electoral observation reports, including the one …
Observing Election Day: Bulgan and Orkhon Aimags
By Julian Dierkes During the five days leading up to the election we had driven through Tov, Arkhangai and Khuvsgul, visiting polling stations and campaign offices along the way. We …