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Mongolia, a democratic island in an authoritarian sea

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“Democracy: target exceeded.” How Mongolia became the region's only stronghold of freedom


Due to protests again corruption (that is very real in Mongolia), the Mongolian government is ready to declassify documents and reform the government system form a Semi- Presidential system to a Parliamentary system. Mongolia became independent from China in the 1910s, but was drifting into becoming a Russian protectorate. During the Russian Civil War things were chaotic in Mongolia, the Head of State was a Tibetan Monk who also was the spiritual leader, but quickly Mongolia was first occupied by a Chinese warlord with the ambition to reannex Mongolia to the then Republic of China, but he was defeated by the fleeing Russian White Warlord Roman Ungern von Sternberg who installed himself as dictator, but later after he was defeated by the Reds (of whom several where Mongolian nationalists) and on the run, his Mongolian officers and soldiers betrayed him and sold him to the Reds. After that Mongolia fell under the Soviet sphere, and was a Communist country until the fall of the USSR.

Today Mongolia can be considered the only democracy in the region, with the Central Asian states backpedaling (some of them never making any steps in the democratic direction to begin with), and the other two countries in the region being Russia and China. However Mongolia's position is weak, and it's only arsenal is trying to play Moscow and Beijing against each other. Too many times in Mongolian history they have been occupied by either of their two big neighbors.
 
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