India came to grief by counting on the Soviet Union’s ability to hold Red China in check in Asia. Yet last week, a far more feeble Asian state, Outer Mongolia, was clinging firmly to the same policy.

As far as the rest of the world was concerned, for the past six weeks the war between the Japanese and Russians on the border between Outer Mongolia and Manchukuo has been fought by the official ...

Mongolia, also called "Outer Mongolia" declared independence from China in 1911, but was soon occupied by Russians, who were first welcomed as allies against China, but proved just as heavy handed.

Pope Francis’ next international trip will bring him to Mongolia, a democracy sandwiched between the authoritarian powers of Russia and China. When Pope Francis lands in the capital city of ...

Beijing long allowed Mongols in China to live out their cultural identity. That, though, is now over. Xi Jinping has decided ...

When I was growing up, my family would use the idiom “further than Outer Mongolia” to describe someplace that seemed impossibly far away. So imagine my surprise when I found out that I would be ...