Day 819: Mongolia's Mining Squabbles Squander Sovereignty And Gift China Power

Since August 2011, a swathe of Mongolia’s politicians have committed themselves to a series of public squabbles with international mining companies operating in Mongolia. These politically staged disputes are ultimately diminishing a century of work by Mongolia’s politicians to be independent of China. The politicians behind these schemes seem unable to comprehend the knock-on effects of their grandstanding that renders their country more beholden to China with each passing month of their maneuvers.