PRESERVING MONGOLIAN SOVEREIGNTY AND CULTURE MONDAY, JUNE 19, 2017 The sovereignty of Mongolia is under siege. The People’s Republic China (PRC) regards Mongolia as its “Ukraine” i , ii . Covertly the PRC has ambitions 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 engineered the assimilation of Crimea in 2014. This was Mao Tse-tung’s prophecy and intent once China could establish parity or surpass Soviet military and economic might. iii As the world’s attention is focused on China’s South China Sea claims, an asymmetrical war is also being conducted by the PRC to achieve Mongolian assimilation. Russian influence is being marginalized, as are Mongolia’s ‘3 rd Neighbor’ partners such as Japan, South Korea, Germany, and the US iv . China’s penetration and Sinification of Mongolia’s natural resources, financial system, businesses, infrastructure, media, social media, culture, religion, security, electoral system, and political body are each battle fronts in a multi-pronged asymmetrical campaign to isolate and then assimilate Mongolia v . Preserving Mongolian sovereignty demands a global awareness of the PRC’s covert intent. An education campaign is needed both within Mongolia and globally to counter a) the PRC’s revisionist historical justification for claiming Mongolia as their Crimea vi and b) the PRC’s effort to isolate Mongolia 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 Inner Mongolia 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 hope for 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,