Mongolia

Secretary of State Antony Blinken departs for a six-nation tour of Asia, derisively described by Chinese state media as his “farewell tour.”

Mongolia’s current winter extremes are fueled by climate change and put the country at “high risk,” the Huffington Post reported Sunday.

Pope Francis has blamed Mongolia’s current cold spell on global warming, insisting that the overheating environment is a “global social problem.”

Pope Francis took advantage of his trip to Mongolia Sunday to reach out to Chinese Catholics, exhorting them to be “good citizens.”

China’s state-run People’s Daily on Thursday ran an editorial bragging about “remarkable ecological progress over the past ten years,” even though China remains the world’s worst polluter by a wide margin, and burns more dirty coal for electric power than ever before.

While the rest of the industrialized world tells its citizens to prepare for a lower-energy, more difficult, but more “green” future, China continues to power its factories and megacities by gleefully burning gigantic amounts of coal. On Monday, China and Mongolia announced the launch of a new 145-mile rail line that will haul coal from Mongolia’s Tavan Tolgoi field across the border to hungry Chinese factories.

China’s National Energy Administration (NEA) said Thursday it approved a coal mine project worth 3.1 billion yuan ($458 million) in the country’s Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, Reuters reported.

Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday his government is conducting feasibility studies for a gas pipeline between Russia and China.

Chinese Communist Party health authorities claimed to have identified live Chinese coronavirus on the surfaces of imports from Mongolia on Thursday, furthering the regime’s claim that a foreign source caused an ongoing nationwide outbreak of the disease traced to Shanghai.

The Chinese government on Tuesday launched a major effort to ramp up coal production and stabilize coal prices ahead of an anticipated surge in electric power demand this winter.

The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is attempting to erase the Mongol emperor Genghis Khan from Chinese history according to a report this weekend by human rights magazine Bitter Winter.

A French museum has postponed an exhibition on the 13th-century Mongol emperor Ghengis Khan, after accusing China of “censorship” and of trying to rewrite history.

Chinese authorities have arrested thousands of people in Inner Mongolia after they refused to accept Beijing’s recently imposed restrictions on nomadic pastoralism, a traditional lifestyle of the Mongolian people, Hong Kong’s Apple Daily reported this weekend.

Protests against the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) over its bilingual education plan — allegedly an effort to eradicate the Mongolian language in China — continued on Tuesday after weeks of tension and intense political scrutiny that saw the arrests of more than 5,000 Mongolians.

The Chinese government has arrested hundreds of people in the Inner Mongolian Autonomous Region for protesting the implementation of a new language policy which locals fear is a means to eradicate their language and replace it with standard Chinese.

Thousands of ethnic Mongolians across northern China are protesting a Chinese Communist Party (CCP) mandate to end Mongolian-language teaching in primary schools, Radio Free Asia (RFA) reported Monday.

Exactly four weeks after an outbreak of the deadly and highly transmissible bubonic plague in China was described as being “well managed” by the World Health Organization (W.H.O.) and really no cause for concern, Beijing confirmed Tuesday further casualties from the surge in infections.

An outbreak of the deadly and highly transmissible bubonic plague in China is being “well managed” by Beijing and is really no cause for alarm,  the World Health Organization (W.H.O.) said Tuesday.

Amid frantic attempts to contain the coronavirus, Mongolia closed its border to China while Hong Kong and Malaysia banned visitors from the province from which the Wuhan virus originated.

The CDC says it is considering expanding screening for travel to the U.S. New York officials say infection is inevitable

Mongolian President Battulga Khaltmaa symbolically gifted a horse to President Donald Trump’s son Barron on Wednesday. Mongolia has a tradition of gifting the symbolic horses to foreign dignitaries.

Nine tourists were left stranded in a remote region of Mongolia after an unidentified local couple died from the bubonic plague.

Mongolians enraged by multiple corruption scandals filled the streets of the capital to protest on Thursday even though temperatures fell below zero degrees Fahrenheit.

The Washington Post brings up an embarrassing little detail that may need to be cleared up before the historic summit between President Donald Trump and North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un can take place: Kim may not have an airplane capable of crossing the Pacific to attend a meeting in Europe, at least not without an embarrassing number of refueling stops.

Contents: General warns of US security danger if China acquires Djibouti seaport; China continues influence through ‘debt trap’ policies

Contents: Mongolia elects new president after highly nationalistic anti-China campaign; India to help construct Mongolia’s first oil refinery; Brief generational history of Mongolia

Contents: Mongolia’s herders faces a ‘dzud’ weather catastrophe; China punishes Mongolia for Dalai Lama visit during financial crisis

Local Chinese governments on the border with Mongolia have imposed new fees on companies exporting minerals from Mongolia into China, a move that closely follows Mongolia’s warm welcome of Dalai Lama.

Contents: Mongolia in economic crisis asks the IMF for a bailout; Mongolia signs new mining deal with Rio Tinto for future growth

No, it is not a story borrowed from one of Nicolas Cage’s “National Treasure” films, although it does appear the actor discovered a special appreciation for rare artifacts while working on the Disney franchise.