US President Donald Trump speaks with reporters as he welcomes Mongolian President Khaltmaagiin Battulga in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington on July 31. Photo: AFP

Eye on Asia by Patrick Mendis and Itgelt Bat-ochir

Mongolia is seeking greener pastures with the US and India to balance China’s influence

Mongolia, with its large, resource-rich land mass and small population, is economically dependent on China. Will its courtship of India and the US pay off?

Patrick Mendis and Itgelt Bat-ochir

Published: 3:00pm, 17 Nov, 2019

Updated: 9:44pm, 17 Nov, 2019

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US President Donald Trump speaks with reporters as he welcomes Mongolian President Khaltmaagiin Battulga in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington on July 31. Photo: AFP

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Patrick Mendis

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Dr Patrick Mendis, a Harvard Kennedy School's former Rajawali senior fellow, is an associate-in-research at the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies at Harvard University, a senior fellow of the Pangoal Institution in Beijing, and a distinguished visiting professor of Asian-Pacific affairs at Shandong University in Jinan, China. He is the author of Peaceful War: How the Chinese Dream and American Destiny Create a Pacific New World Order (see www.patrickmendis.com).

Itgelt Bat-ochir

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Itgelt Bat-ochir is a final-year student of international relations at the University of Pecs in Hungary.