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Mongolia Energy Riches Attract Neighbors and Outside Interests

Jutia Group | August 11, 2011 | 2:15 pm Base Metals Energy Asia China Europe Coal Copper Iron Ore

Pity poor Mongolia, bereft of fiscal resources, caught between the ambitions of its superpower neighbors, Russia and China. Ulaan Bator’s situation is akin to interwar Poland, dexterously attempting to reconcile its foreign policy between the USSR’s hammer and Nazi Germany’s hard place.

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