Recently, two major events have taken place in the Mongolian direction. First, China's Ministry of National Defense officially announced that it would launch a nearly month-long joint exercise with the Mongolian Army in Mongolia, with the aim of "dealing with the activities of illegal armed groups," and the exercise officially began in East Gobi Province in southeastern Mongolia on the 12th.
The PLA dispatched troops this time are battalion-sized and equipped with nearly 100 vehicles and equipment, and it is also planned to conduct live military exercises. This is also the first joint army exercise jointly organized by China and Mongolia.
Second, the Kazakh ambassador to Russia revealed that Russia has reached an agreement with Kazakhstan to start a new natural gas project, which will be mainly used to transport Russian natural gas to China. After the completion of the project, it is expected to transmit 35 billion cubic meters of gas per year.
Pla
As soon as this news came out, the eyes of the whole world turned to Mongolia. The reason is simple: when China and Russia were talking about a new gas pipeline project, the two sides had always focused on the "Power of Siberia 2" passing through Mongolia. The pipeline, which has been in the pipeline for many years and is expected to carry 50 billion cubic meters of gas, was originally scheduled to start construction in the first quarter of this year.
However, in April, the Russian side said that the parties involved in the project had not yet agreed on the price, so it could not sign a construction agreement in the short term. At that time, many Western media speculated that China and Russia had not negotiated, but judging from the rapid progress of this new project in Kazakhstan, it is likely that it is not China and Russia that are blocking the landing of the "Power of Siberia 2" pipeline, but the "middleman" Mongolia.
China and Russia are now bypassing Mongolia's new Kazakhstan pipeline, which is obviously to circumvent this stumbling block. Mongolia is a country that can be described in one word as "abstract". As a country sandwiched between China and Russia, Mongolia's security environment certainly goes without saying. At the same time, Mongolia itself is quite rich in resources.
Sino-Russian gas project
At present, there are nearly 90 categories of energy minerals discovered in Mongolia, including not only coal and oil, which are the lifelines of industrial production, but also more than 30 million tons of rare earth resources. In recent years, with the increasingly close relations between China and Russia, China's "Belt and Road" initiative has continued to extend to Central Asia and Central and Eastern Europe. It stands to reason that with Mongolia's geographical and resource conditions, even if you sit on a minecart and "eat your old capital", you can make a lot of money.
But Mongolia has gone off the beaten path, and its elite has come up with a "creative" diplomatic solution called a third neighbor. Who is this third neighbor? That's right, it's the United States. The country's territory and airspace are fully surrounded by China and Russia, but the genius idea of thinking about Latin America as a "balance hand" is really impossible for ordinary countries to think of.
Of course, Mongolia's abstraction is also inseparable from the CIA's deliberate infiltration over the years. To take the simplest example, NATO has been tirelessly trying to build a military base in Mongolia for many years. Almost every 10 years, a high-ranking Mongolian official comes forward to "refute rumors" about this matter.
American
In 2005, the U.S. Secretary of Defense traveled to Ulaanbaatar to lobby Mongolia for a "peacekeeping force" in the country. In 2014, the Pentagon reported that it was going to build a military base in Mongolia, forcing the then Mongolian leaders to go directly to Moscow to prove their innocence. In April this year, a similar "tug-and-go" was staged between the United States and Mongolia, which ended with Mongolia issuing a statement saying that it would never allow the presence of US military bases in its territory.
It is clear that Mongolia has a position in the United States that is completely out of step with its strength. There are two reasons why this happens. The first reason is the special geographical location. If there is an opportunity to hammer a nail between China and Russia, then the United States will certainly not let it go.
Moreover, Mongolia is located in the heart of the Eurasian continent, and the United States has been trying to create a fault zone on the Eurasian continent for many years, consisting of Japan, Mongolia, Kazakhstan, and Ukraine. In the geopolitical theory of the United States, once these countries "connect the dots into a line," the north and south of the Eurasian continent will be divided, so that it is convenient for the United States to divide and conquer and play the "offshore balancer."
Mongolia, USA
In recent years, Japan has been actively building relations with the five Central Asian countries, and in August this year, it wants to host the first Japan-Central Asian summit to serve this goal. However, the ideal is plump, and the reality is skinny. China has taken the lead in laying out the Belt and Road Initiative, and has gone far further than the United States and Japan in developing relations with the five Central Asian countries.
Even if Mongolia is really abstract to the extreme, and elects a leader who is optimistic about the United States, it is a question of how the American GIs can bypass China and Russia and penetrate deep into the hinterland of the Eurasian continent. The second reason why the United States attaches importance to Mongolia is that it wants to compete with China for the right to speak on the history of the Eurasian continent. The study of Chinese history in the United States has been greatly influenced by the "pseudo-Chinese historical view" fabricated by Japan in the service of militarist aggression during World War II.
To put it simply, the popular study of Chinese history in the United States and Japan has always tried to cut the history after the Yuan Dynasty from Chinese history, thereby denying the continuity of Chinese civilization and making excuses for usurping the "orthodox" status and increasing its influence in the East Asian cultural circle.
Mong-Mei-ri
The Japanese had a saying that "there is no China behind Yashan," and under these words there was an extremely vicious implication, that is, they wanted to boast that "Chinese orthodoxy is in Tokyo." This is a systematic deconstruction of Chinese culture that has lasted for more than 100 years in disregard of historical facts, and has been since 1868 at the latest, when Japan changed the name of "Edo" to "Tokyo" and wanted to paste Tokyo in the Northern Song Dynasty.
Mongolia, which has a deep relationship with the Yuan Dynasty, has naturally become the object of key research and praise in the historical narratives of the United States and Japan. The "Mongol Empire" was used by the United States and Japan as a tool to divide Chinese history, so its status was elevated very high. Under this narrative, a group of elites in Mongolia are also brainwashed very badly.
As mentioned at the beginning, the PLA has not conducted joint exercises with the Mongolian Army for decades, so why is it suddenly starting to do so now, and it is also named as "illegal armed groups"?
China, Russia and Mongolia
The reason is very simple: on May 1, the mainland embassy in Mongolia announced that some Chinese citizens had suffered "vicious traffic accidents" in Mongolia, and Chinese-funded enterprises had also been deliberately harassed by "non-governmental organizations", which not only caused property damage, but also caused "serious casualties". Under such circumstances, it is not surprising that the PLA dispatched a battalion to help Mongolia sober up.
In the past, the People's Liberation Army (PLA) had too many concerns in Mongolia to be effective. Now that Russia has turned to the east, some of the things that need to be done can naturally be done.
Whether it is China and Russia's decision to shelve Mongolia and build a new gas pipeline through Kazakhstan, or the People's Liberation Army (PLA) taking direct action to point fingers at the so-called "non-armed groups" in Mongolia, it is sending a warning signal to Mongolia: Times have changed, and Mongolia is destined to become an outcast if it continues to dance with the United States.
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