At Davos in January, Prime Minister Gombojavyn Zandanshatar signed Mongolia onto Donald Trump’s “Board of Peace,” securing founding member status in a body pitched as an alternative to the United Nations. U.S. President Donald Trump and Mongolian Prime Minister Gombojavyn Zandanshatar at the Davos Forum (source: graph.mn) The government sells this as continuity with Mongolia’s multi-pillar peaceful foreign policy. In practice, it marks a sharper turn toward transactional dipl

Mongolia faces crucial tests on resource policy, fiscal discipline and energy security as commodity boom fades and public patience wears thin.

Mongolia weighs privatizing major state firms as political appointments, rising debt, and stalled reforms test its state-sector model.

Mongolia's recent presidential visit to Rome, elevating ties with Italy to a "strategic partnership," marks a significant recalibration of Ulaanbaatar's European diplomacy. Mongolian President Ukhnaagiin Khurelsukh and Italian President Sergio Mattarella (www.president.mn) Italy becomes the second European Union member after Germany to achieve this top-tier status with Mongolia, providing Ulaanbaatar another political anchor as its traditional balancing act between Russia, Ch