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.
Mongolia’s third round of constitutional reforms in four years added 50 seats to the State Great Khural, 38 percent of which will be chosen by proportional representation.
Whether protesters’ momentum can spur reform to root out corruption in Mongolia is an open question, write Gantulga Munkherdene (National University of Mongolia) and Ariell Ahearn (University of Oxford).