Mongolia's Davos Bet on Trump's Board of Peace

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.

The government sells this as continuity with Mongolia’s multi-pillar peaceful foreign policy. In practice, it marks a sharper turn toward transactional diplomacy shaped by power, not rules.

The timing matters. Mongolia is economically fragile and politically exposed. The recent suspension of U.S. immigrant visas for Mongolians hit a sensitive nerve in the Third Neighbor relationship.