The highlights this week: We take a look at the increasingly strained history of ethnic ties between China and Mongolia , Japan’s new prime minister makes clear her stance on Taiwan, and China shines at the annual U.N. climate conference .
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The highlights this week: We take a look at the increasingly strained history of ethnic ties between China and Mongolia, Japan’s new prime minister makes clear her stance on Taiwan, and China shines at the annual U.N. climate conference.
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A Brief History of China-Mongolia Relations
China’s northern neighbor Mongolia is facing a constitutional crisis after its Supreme Court ruled last month that the parliament’s mid-October no-confidence vote against the prime minister was improperly conducted—worsening the ongoing clash between parliament and the country’s president.
But the turmoil won’t affect most ethnic Mongols, who face an entirely different set of political problems. That is because around 6.3 million Mongols live in China, mostly in the region of Inner Mongolia. That’s almost twice the 3.5 million people living in the country of Mongolia (or as it was once called, Outer Mongolia).
China’s Mongol population also far outnumbers that o
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