{"id":45052,"date":"2022-05-31T18:51:07","date_gmt":"2022-05-31T09:51:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/may\/31\/mongolia-under-pressure-to-align-with-russia-and-china"},"modified":"2022-05-31T18:51:07","modified_gmt":"2022-05-31T09:51:07","slug":"mongolia-under-pressure-to-align-with-russia-and-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=45052","title":{"rendered":"Mongolia under pressure to align with Russia and China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Landlocked state is pursuing neutrality despite neighbours\u2019 efforts to create triangle of anti-western cooperation<\/p>\n<p>Mongolia, a squeezed outpost of democracy in north-east Asia, is under renewed pressure from its authoritarian neighbours, Russia and China, to shed its independence and form a triangle of anti-western cooperation in the wake of the war in Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>The country is doggedly pursuing a path of neutrality, coupled with a policy of economic diversification designed to keep its unique culture and still relatively recent independence alive, according to Nomin Chinbat, its culture secretary.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/may\/31\/mongolia-under-pressure-to-align-with-russia-and-china\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Landlocked state is pursuing neutrality despite neighbours\u2019 efforts to create triangle of anti-western cooperationMongolia, a squeezed outpost of democracy in north-east Asia, is under renewed pressure from its authoritarian neighbours, Russia and Chin&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":493,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,50,221,1385,419,930,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-europe","category-mongolia","category-russia","category-ukraine","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45052","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/493"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45052"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45052\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45053,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45052\/revisions\/45053"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}