Starry Nights in Mongolia » The Epoch Times: "Once I arrived, though, it was the vast, open horizon that seized my attention: sprawling expanses of grassland steppes; mountain ranges as jagged as a dinosaur’s back; and wind-carved desert sands rippling down majestic dunes. Three times the size of France, Mongolia’s population totals 2.9 million, fewer than the throngs that pervade Manhattan on a weekday.
After seventy years under Soviet domination, this remote landmass, tucked between Russia and China looks and feels like a country that survived near extinction and now controls its future. It won independence in 1990, transformed into a democracy, and then discovered a rich pile of coal, copper, and gold."
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