File 029427
Preserving Mongolian Sovereignty and Culture: Analysis of PRC Assimilation Threats (File 029427)
A geopolitical analysis examining China's covert campaign to assimilate Mongolia through economic, cultural, and political penetration, drawing parallels to territorial claims in Crimea and the assimilation model applied to Inner Mongolia.
Summary
This document presents a critical analysis of China's strategic objectives regarding Mongolia, arguing that the People's Republic of China views Mongolia as its potential 'Ukraine' and is conducting an asymmetrical campaign to isolate and assimilate it. The author contends that China is systematically penetrating Mongolia's natural resources, financial systems, businesses, infrastructure, media, and political structures to achieve integration. The document calls for international awareness and counter-campaigns to prevent Mongolia's assimilation, warning that without intervention, Mongolia will become Sinicized like Inner Mongolia and Manchuria within a decade.
PRESERVING MONGOLIAN SOVEREIGNTY AND CULTUREMONDAY, JUNE 19, 2017The sovereignty of Mongolia is under siege.The People’s Republic China (PRC) regards Mongolia as its “Ukraine” i , ii . Covertly the PRC hasambitions not simply to make Mongolia a client or puppet state, as it was under Soviet domination,but to integrate it with the PRC through a “voluntary” referendum, just as the Russians engineeredthe assimilation of Crimea in 2014.This was Mao Tse-tung’s prophecy and intent once China could establish parity or surpass Sovietmilitary and economic might. iiiAs the world’s attention is focused on China’s South China Sea claims, an asymmetrical war is alsobeing conducted by the PRC to achieve Mongolian assimilation. Russian influence is beingmarginalized, as are Mongolia’s ‘3 rd Neighbor’ partners such as Japan, South Korea, Germany, andthe US iv . China’s penetration and Sinification of Mongolia’s natural resources, financial system,businesses, infrastructure, media, social media, culture, religion, security, electoral system, andpolitical body are each battle fronts in a multi-pronged asymmetrical campaign to isolate and thenassimilate Mongolia v .Preserving Mongolian sovereignty demands a global awareness of the PRC’s covert intent. Aneducation campaign is needed both within Mongolia and globally to counter a) the PRC’s revisionisthistorical justification for claiming Mongolia as their Crimea vi and b) the PRC’s effort to isolateMongolia and control all aspects of Mongolia’s economy, resources, politics, and culture.Without a counter-campaign Mongolia will in a decade’s time be assimilate and Sinicized like InnerMongolia and Manchuria vii . Mongolians will become strangers in their own land.China’s assimilation of Mongolia will not only be a tragedy for the Mongolian people and the hopefor Central Asian democracy, but a threat to the balance of power in Eurasia.i In negotiations in 1956 between the Soviets and the PRC, the Soviet negotiator, Sergo Mikoyan, and CCPPolitburo member Liu Shaoqi and Premier Zhou Enlai, the Chinese hoped to connect the granting of Mongoliaindependence with the question of Stalin’s “mistakes.” The Chinese requested the Soviets cancel Mongoliaindependence in the wake of Khrushchev’s condemnation of Stalin’s personality cult. Liu Shaoqi drew aparallel between Mongolia and Ukraine. He declared that Mongolia was China’s “Ukraine”. Source: “NewDocuments on Mongolia and the Cold War” by Sergey Radchenko, Wilson Center Cold War International HistoryProject Bulletin, Issue 16, page 343 and Document 1,https://www.wilsoncenter.org/sites/default/files/CWIHPBulletin16_p4_1.pdf.ii In 26 February 1989 Deng Xiaoping in a revealing complaint to President Bush showed enduring Chineseviews on Mongolia in regard to how Stalin had stolen or severed Mongolia from China. “Memorandum ofConversation between George H. W. Bush and Chairman Deng Xiaoping in Beijing”, Wilson Center, February26, 1989,http://digitalarchive.wilsoncenter.org/document/116507.pdf?v=9e009d7beac46b3b33fcaafd3bcd08f5.iii On 2 September 1964 during Mao’s talk with the Japanese group of socialists, Mao announced that much ofSiberia and Far East once belonged to China: “About a hundred years ago the area of to the east of Baikalbecome the territory of Russia and from then on Vladivostok, Khabarovsk, Kamchatka and other points arethe territory of the Soviet Union. We have not yet requested settling this account!” The publisher of thearticle writes that Mao makes this claim based on “the fact that many hundreds of years ago Chinese troopscame to these areas and that once the Chinese Emperor collected tribute from the local people. Sournce: “Inconnection with Mao Tse-tung’s talk with a group of Japanese socialists”, Novosti Press Agency PublishingHouse, 2 September 1964, page 9 and 20,https://ia801207.us.archive.org/0/items/MaosTalkWithJapaneseSocialists/Maos%20Talk%20with%20Japanese%20Socialists.pdf.iv “Battered Mongolia faces make-or-break moment” by Ken Koyanagi, Financial Times, 5 February 2017,https://www.ft.com/content/36b059b4-ea10-11e6-893c-082c54a7f539.v “China-Mongolia Relations: Challenges and Opportunities” by Zolzaya Erdenebileg, China Briefing, 6 January2017, http://www.china-briefing.com/news/2017/01/06/china-mongolia-relations.html.vi Throughout history, Han Chinese have only controlled Mongolia for less than 18 months and that militaryeffort was, ironically, financed by the Imperial Japanese Army.vii “Inner Mongolia has become China’s model of assimilation” by Hohhot and West Ujimqin, The Economist, 1June 2017, http://www.economist.com/news/china/21722853-chinese-mongolians-are-still-asserting-theiridentity-inner-mongolia-has-become-chinas-model.