China’s Messy History With Mongolia

Welcome to Foreign Policy’s China Brief. 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. 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…