[20200709]IF10926_蒙古国.pdf

https:/crsreports.congress.gov Updated July 9, 2020MongoliaOverview Mongolia is a landlocked nation of 3 million people between Russia and the Peoples Republic of China (PRC). It has been viewed as a democratic success story both among former Soviet satellite states and in Asia. In 1989, democratic activists staged protests against communist rule and formed the Mongolian Democratic Union. The Mongolian Peoples Revolutionary Party (MPRP), which had ruled the country since 1921, allowed multiparty elections in 1990 and relinquished power in 1996, when a Democratic Party (DP)-led coalition of opposition forces won nationwide elections. Mongolias foreign relations are driven by a desire to preserve its autonomy by balancing relations between major partners, including the United States, China, and Russia, and also Japan and South Korea. U.S. policy has aimed to help Mongolia maintain an independent foreign policy. In July 2019, Mongolian President Khaltmaagiin Battulga met with President Trump in Washington, DC, and the two governments agreed to establish a Strategic Partnership. In August 2019, Secretary of Defense Mark Esper traveled to the Mongolian capital of Ulaanbaatar and met wi