Russia is keeping a close eye on the relationship between Trump and Battulga. Reporting on the recently signed Declaration on the Strategic Partnership between the United States of America and Mongolia, Russian state news agency TASS says that “experts” claim such agreements are largely meaningless and merely designed to demonstrate growing international support for Mongolia.
“There will be no significant consequences [for Mongolia’s relations with Russia and China] after this declaration,” Valdai International Discussion Club chair Andrey Bystritsky told the agency. “It is rather a demonstrative political gesture aimed at showing to Mongolia’s neighbours that Mongolia has some additional real or imaginary political support.”
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