Shocking news to me out of Mongolia about the state of emergency in a country that’s been pretty stable over the past number of years. The BBC reports:

The president of Mongolia has declared a four-day state of emergency in the capital amid violent protests over claims the general election was rigged.

Crowds torched the HQ of Mongolia’s governing party - the former Communists - and attacked a police station.

So the possible reason why things are going crazy? Money:

Despite years of political unease, politics in Mongolia was relatively calm as long as the country was poor, the BBC’s David Bamford says.

But that has changed, as recently unearthed deposits of copper, gold and coal in the vast Mongolian plateau start to be exploited, our correspondent says.

As I’ll repeat over and over again here, International Economics (Liberalism) will always trump domestic politics (Strategic Choice).