Mongolia must maintain flexible relationships with the United States and immediate neighbours Russia and China to successfully capitalise on its critical mineral resources and diversify economically.
A Senate Finance subcommittee recently held a timely hearing entitled “Censorship as a Non-Tariff Barrier to Trade.” One of the witnesses, whose name may sound familiar, pointed out the potential in the U.S.-Mongolia relationship in countering the harmful effects of censorship on trade in the Indo-Pacific region.
Mongolia and the United States took big steps forward in 2018 and 2019, but ties have stalled since then amid the pandemic and a downturn in economic engagement.