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