When the Qing Empire fell, Outer Mongolia declared independence while Inner Mongolia remained part of China. Over a century later, they walk on two very different paths. Mongolia kept its nomadic ...

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.

Buried deep in the heart of the huge Asian land mass, Outer Mongolia is a country of sweeping plains, lake-studded highlands, with an awkward location: it is set squarely between Communist China and ...