Харицлагагvй Албат

After the president of Mongolia visited the White House in 2006 to discuss the future of US-Mongolia relations, an executive assistant to the foreign minister confided that while his government publicly reiterated its commitment to democratic reform, "we really like what they are doing in China." Under that model," he explained, "you get the benefit of 10 percent annual growth, a middle class, and leaders know they have a job for more than four years...but without the 'side-effects' of democracy.

from Stefan Halper The Beijing Consensus p.129

The Geography of Chinese Power

Urjigdar München Haupbahnhof-iin newsstand deer minii neleed deer profile hiij baisan Robert Kaplan-ii Foreign Affairs deer garsan Hyatadiin geopolitics-iin talaar mash sonirholtoy niitleliig olj uzev (PDF). Hervee heterhii urt sanagdval IHT deerh tovchilson op-ed-iig endees unshij bolno. Mun tuunchlen husvel endees Kaplan-ii audio yariltslagiig sonsooroy.

Niitleliin yurunhii sanaa ni gevel Hyatadiin geopolitics-iin bodlogo ni tsaashdaa Amerikiinh shig ideology deer suurilaj bus harin udruus udurt usun nemegdej bui hun amiin heregtseeg hangah tuuhii ed, erchim huchnii eh uusveriig medeldee oruulj avah ermelzel deer tulguurlah bolno. Ene ch utgaaraa Hyatadiin ergen toiron dahi jijig ulsuud tednii tuuhii ediig niiluuleh, orond ni belen buteegdehuun importloh zamaar nuluulliin bused ni oroh yum. Ene nuhtsuld Amerikiin tsaashdiin Azi tiv deh geopolitics-iin bodlogo Hyatadiin nuluulliig ene bus nutagt herhen togtoon barih ve gedeg deer tuvlurnu.

CREEPING CONTROL

Even where China's borders are secure, the country's very shape makes it appear as though it is dangerously incomplete--as if parts of an original Greater China had been removed. China's northern border wraps around Mongolia, a giant territory that looks like it was once bitten out of China's back. Mongolia has one of the world's lowest population densities and is now being threatened demographically by an urban Chinese civilization next door. Having once conquered Outer Mongolia to gain access to more cultivable land, Beijing is poised to conquer Mongolia again, after a fashion, in order to satisfy its hunger for the country's oil, coal, uranium, and rich, empty grasslands. Chinese mining companies have been seeking large stakes in Mongolia's underground assets because unchecked industrialization and urbanization have turned China into the world's leading consumer of aluminum, copper, lead, nickel, zinc, tin, and iron ore; China's share of the world's metal consumption has jumped from ten percent to 25 percent since the late 1990s. With Tibet, Macao, and Hong Kong already under Beijing's control, China's dealings with Mongolia will be a model for judging the degree to which China harbors imperialist intentions.

North of Mongolia and of China's three northeastern provinces lies Russia's Far East region, a numbing vastness twice the size of Europe with a meager and shrinking population. The Russian state expanded its reach into this area during the nineteenth century and the early twentieth century, while China was weak. Now, China is strong, and the Russian government's authority is nowhere as feeble as it is in the eastern third of the country. Just across the border from the roughly seven million Russians who live in the Russian Far East -- a figure that could fall as low as 4.5 million by 2015 -- in the three abutting Chinese provinces, live some 100 million Chinese: the population density is 62 times as great on the Chinese side as on the Russian side. Chinese migrants have been filtering into Russia, settling in large numbers in the city of Chita, north of Mongolia, and elsewhere in the region. Resource acquisition is the principal goal of China's foreign policy everywhere, and Russia's sparsely populated Far East has large reserves of natural gas, oil, timber, diamonds, and gold. "Moscow is wary of large numbers of Chinese settlers moving into this region, bringing timber and mining companies in their wake," David Blair, a correspondent for London's Daily Telegraph, wrote last summer.

As with Mongolia, the fear is not that the Chinese army will one day invade or formally annex the Russian Far East. It is that Beijing's creeping demographic and corporate control over the region -- parts of which China held briefly during the Qing dynasty -- is steadily increasing. During the Cold War, border disputes between China and the Soviet Union brought hundreds of thousands of troops to this Siberian back of beyond and sometimes ignited into clashes. In the late 1960s, these tensions led to the Sino-Soviet split. Geography could drive China and Russia apart, since their current alliance is purely tactical. This could benefit the United States. In the 1970s, the Nixon administration was able to take advantage of the rift between Beijing and Moscow to make an opening toward China. In the future, with China the greater power, the United States might conceivably partner with Russia in a strategic alliance to balance against the Middle Kingdom.

Current reading: Stefan Halper - The Beijing Consensus (Not so impressive, but quite interesting: Perhaps market authoritarianism is the way we should develop?)

Addendum: LSE Asia Forum + Tim Harford writes,

China now exports every six hours as much as it did in the whole of 1978.

More Stevens

The Poem That Took The Place Of A Mountain

There it was, word for word,
The poem that took the place of a mountain.

He breathed its oxygen,
Even when the book lay turned in the dust of his table.

It reminded him how he had needed
A place to go to in his own direction,

How he had recomposed the pines,
Shifted the rocks and picked his way among clouds,

For the outlook that would be right,
Where he would be complete in an unexplained completion:

The exact rock where his inexactness
Would discover, at last, the view toward which they had edged,

Where he could lie and, gazing down at the sea,
Recognize his unique and solitary home.

Buyant-Ukhaad buugaad neg saihan tseej duuren amisgaa avah yumsan. Perhaps Mongolia is the only place where I would be complete in an unexplained completion...

Mongolia in the Early 1900s

Early 1900s in Colour (Hat tip to Benoit)

Podcast of the day: Nuclear Energy with Undraa Agvaanluvsan

Die Forelle

And now for some music of a more traditional sort :) Perhaps this is my most favourite rendition of Die Forelle (the second favourite is, of course, Fischer-Dieskau and Moore's version - incidentally it is Rory Stewart's favourite as well). Also please don't forget to check Bostridge's moving performance of Wasserflut (from Schubert's Winterreise)

Wallace Stevens

Olon hun sanal niilehguy baih l daa. Gehdee 20 zuunii hamgiin mundag Amerik yaruu nairagch bol yah argaguy Wallace Stevens. Guitsed oilgoj barahguy ch gesen yadaj unshaad suuh ni tarhinii asar tom dasgal yum daa gegege (Stevens ene shulgiig uuruu unshij baigaag endees sonsooroy).

Final Soliloquy of the Interior Paramour

Light of the first light of evening, as in a room
In which we rest and, for small reason, think
The world imagined is the ultimate good.

This is, therefore, the intensest rendezvous.
It is in that though that we collect ourselves,
Out of all the indifferences, into one thing:

Within a single thing, a single shawl
Wrapped tightly round us, since we are poor, a warmth,
A light, a power, the miraculous influence.

Here, now, we forget each other and ourselves.
We feel the obscurity of an order, a whole,
A knowledge, that which arranged the rendezvous.

Within its vital boundary, in the mind.
We say God and the imagination are one
How high that highest candle lights the dark.

Out of the same light, out of the central mind,
We make a dwelling in the evening air,
In which being there together is enough.

Addendum: Open Yale Course lecture on Wallace Stevens

Оросын Монголд Баримтлах Бодлого

Yurduu hoyor honogiin umnu Orosiin Gadaad Yamnii said Sergei Lavrov-iin Medvedev-t zoriulj bichsen "Orosiin urt hugatsaanii hugjild gadaad bodlogiig ur dunteygeer ashiglah hutulbur" nertey barimt bichig il garch neleed shuugian tariv. Hediigeer ene barimt bichigt uchirguy gots goid shine zuil baihguy bolovch Orosiin gadaad bodlogiin har hairtsaga yur ni yamarshuuhan baigaa talaar neleed tsegtstey oilgolt ugnu. Yalanguya deehne minii bichsenchlen Orosuud "zuulun huch" ruu shiljij buig endees ajiglaj boloh yum. Nuguu talaasaa ted umnuh uye shigee uzel surtal deer tulguurlaj gadaad bodlogoo yavuuldag baisnaa bolij iluu realpolitik handlagatay bolsoniig mun harj bolno. Tovchhondoo bol ene barimt bichgiig hamgiin anh il bolgoson Orosiin Newsweek setguuliin helj buichlan: "Смысл документа в том, что Россия намеревается не на словах, а на деле проводить внешнюю политику, в которой не будет друзей и врагов, а будут только интересы."

Uunii deer minii huvid neg sonirhol tatsan zuil ni Orosiin Mongold barimtlah bodlogiin tuhai boginohon heseg bailaa. Hedii uuniig bid ungursun neg hoyor jild tednii uildleer ni yurunhiiduu gadarlaj baisan avch yag alban yosnii barimt bichigt ingej yag tag tusgasan baigaag ni anhaaraldaa avuushtay:

Монголия

-Расширять двустороннее экономическое сотрудничество на приоритетных для России направлениях, опираясь на заключенные в 2009 г. межправительственные соглашения о создании новых совместных предприятий по строительству железных дорог и освоению в Монголии стратегически важных месторождений полезных ископаемых.

Өдрийн Тэмдэглэлээc

4/14/10 Флоренс хот. Давидын хөшөөг харав. Барууны соёл иргэншлийн охь, эх булаг, толь. Христийн шашин, паганизм, гоо үзэсгэлэн, хүч чадал, итгэл найдвар...

(Oдоохондоо) Эзэнгүй Зөгийн Үүр

Ugluunii tsain deer hajuud suuj taarsan angiin hoyor ohin hoorondoo yariltsaj baina: "Hicheeliin daraa zavtay biz dee, manaid hureed ir. Chatroulette-deye." Hunii yaria dundaas ni sonsoh durguy l dee. Gehdee terhen hugatsaand chatroulette gej odoo yu baidag yum boloo geed zurvas bodood unguruv (no Freudian nonsense, please). Harin oroi hicheeleesee ireed sursan zangaaraa The New Yorker-iin web ruu ortol Chatroulette-iin talaar Roulette Russian gesen niitlel garch. Medeej ene niitlel "the internet's latest sensation" Chatroulette-iin talaar bolovch hamgiin sonirholtoy heseg ni anh ene website-iig hiisen Andrey Ternovskiy hemeeh 18 nastay patsan herhen Amerik ruu garch bui tuhai bailaa. Humuus hugjij bui ornuudiin brain drain geed l yariad baidag, getel ene niitlel shig nudend haragdtal bichseniig urid umnu ni unshij baisanguy:

Official talk of modernization and innovation rankles Vladimir [father of Andrey], who supplements his income with work for Russian Souvenirs. “It’s demagoguery,” he says. Recently, he sent a project proposal to Rusnano: no response. “These projects don’t interest them. The Internet doesn’t interest them. If I proposed something else, like cutting down some forest in the Far East, that would instantly interest them. There’s no support from the government. It’s completely absent. And Andrey knows that if he stays here no one will support him. The country doesn’t need people like him.”

Andrey, in turn, feels that he doesn’t need the country, and declares that he does not want to run a Russian company, which might be forced to pay “dirty,” under-the-table salaries to avoid a crushing tax burden, or to deal with extortion from corrupt tax and fire-code inspectors. “My perfect plan is that I don’t ever return to Moscow,” he told me. He would figure out the permanent-visa thing once he got to New York; for now, he was just eager to get out. “I don’t want to come back,” he said. “I want to live in America.”

Uuruur helbel brain drain-ii hamgiin tom shaltgaan ni hugjsun ornuud iluu taatay orchin, urgun bolomjiig olgodog geheesee iluu turj ussun niigem ni tuhain huniig shudragaar hudulmuruu uneluulj amidrah argaguy bolgodogt baigaa baigaa yum. Ene nuhtsuld avilga heel hahuuli, nuser bureaucracy-g nuraahguygeer gadaadad garsan humuusee erguulj tatah ni bitgii hel odoo baigaa hedee togtoon barih tun hetsuu.

Uuniig harin zarim het alsiin haraatay nuhduud oilgodogguy bololtoy. Jishee ni Bayarkhuu suulchiin niitleldee bas dahin avch ugchee. Tuunii helj buigaar "Гадаадад захиалгаар программ хангамж үйлдвэрлэдэг дор хаяж 1000 компани Монголд хэрэгтэй байна!" Heregtey baigaag ni hun bur нанотехнологитой технологигүй oilgoj baina l daa. Gehdee uuniig bodot baidal bolgohod chuham yu saad bolj baigaa hereg ve? Humuus mangar bolohooroo information technology-giin potential-iig oilgohguy baigaa yum bish shuu dee. Harin Bayarkhuu niitleldee asuudliin gun ruu tooj orsonguy, busdiig zugeer l mangaraar ni duudaad ungursun baina: "Манай ШУА, их сургуулиуд бэлэн болов уу? Үүх түүхээрээ хөөрцөглөн амьсгалсан хэвээр, баахан түүхчдээ шинжлэх ухаан гээд нийгмээрээ төсөөлчихсөн яваа манайханд бол 'цахим', 'нано', 'IT' гэх үгс маш хол, хүнийрхүү байлаа ч би яалт ч үгүй нүүр туллаа шүү!" Tegvel yapond ajillaj baigaa heden arvan Mongol programmer-uudiin talaar yu geh ve? Het uhaantay hunii niitleliig unshih hetsuu ch yum aa daa.

Harin ungursun doloo honogt Milan-d bolson Mongol oyutnuudiin uulzalt deer yurunhiilugchiin zuvluh Otgochuluu gadaadad baigaa bolovsroltoy Mongolchuudaa tataj avah "Зөгийн Үүр" hutulbur heregjuulj baigaa talaaraa yariv. Gol sanaa ni bol economic incentive ashiglaj buyu (endees iluu nariin medeelel avch bolno) tedgeer humuusiig Mongold irehed ni ehnii eeljind mungunii huvid sanaa zovohguy bolgoh aj. Otgochuluugiin helj buigaar Germany-d jishee ni tend surguuli tugssun humuusiig Germanii zasgiin gazar neg jiliinh ni tsalingiin deer 10'000 euro uguud nutag ruu ni yavuuldag gene (Otgochuluu uuruu uuniig ni avch baisan gev).

Gehdee ene incentive humuusiig eh oron ruugaa nutag butsahad ni hangalttay shaltgaan bolj chadah uu? Minii medeh gadaadad bui mash mundag Mongolchuudad mungu bol tiim tom problem bish. Ted Mongold delhiin hemjeenii tsalin avdagguy yum aa gehed uursdiiguu henees ch dutuuguy avaad yavchih chadaltay humuus. Harin Mongold uguylegddeg hamgiin chuhal zuil bol ayulguy amidrah orchin: hool idlee hordono, zam garlaa mashind shurguulne, huuhdee surguulid yavuullaa bagsh nar ni uursduu ulaan noil. Uunii deer avilga, hun surtaliig ni nemvel ger bultey humuusiig baitugay bidnii uyeiihniig ch shantraana. Uuniig yanzlahguygeer humuusiig gants munguur dallaad hureed ireh ni yu l bol, irlee gehed hamgiin chadaltaynuud ni ard uldeed hotsroh ni oilgomjtoy.

Gehdee nuguu talaasaa bid zorig gargan ergej ochihguy bol ene buhen uurchlugduhguy. Yamar hoyor amidrah bish gants bieiinhee amariig haraad suugaad baih bas l utgaguy asuudal. Uuruur helbel Mongoliig hugjuulehiin tuld ali ali taldaa yamar neg zuiliig zoliosloh shaardlagatay. Yamar ch chuhal uil hergiig yug ch zolioslohguygeer buteej baisan tuuh baihguy.

Kyrgyzs to Learn from Mongolia?

Kyrgyz-uud manaihnaas parliament-iin zasaglal herhen baiguulah talaar turshlaga sudlaj bui bololtoy. Dunguj saya Kyrgyzstan-ii tur zasgiin gazriin terguun Otunbayeva twitter deeree ingej "jirgev":

otunbayeva: Много сомнений о парламентской форме правления. Никак не приживается в СНГ. Но возьмем Монголию, там парлам.форма правления с самого начала.

otunbayeva: В Монголии к руководству пришли плавно или через конвульсии удивительно высоко образованные кадры. Можно поизучать.

Оросын Зөөлөн Хүч

Hedhen doloo honogiin umnu Kyrgyzstan, harin odoo Ukraine. Orosiin huuchin ezent gurnii ambition alham alhamaar bodot baidal bolsoor. Gehdee uridiinh shigee turemgiilel deer tulguurlaj bus, harin "zuulun huchiig" ashiglaj. Urid ni buutay tserguud tankan deer suulgaad durtay uls ruugaa ilgeedeg baisan bol odoo Orosuud televiziin delgets, mungun tuslamjiin amlalt, baigaliin hiin unereer nuluulliin hureegee tomsgodog boljee. Uchigdur Denmark-iin DR radio-d ugsun yariltslagadaa Medvedev uuniig uuriinhuu ineemseglej bui tsarai deeree jishee avan tailbarlasan baina (Orosiin ene gadaad bodlogiig "ineemsegleliin huch" ch geed nerlechihmeer yum uu? haha):

На вопрос, каким должно быть лицо России для другого мира, Медведев, улыбнувшись, ответил: "Такое, как у меня сейчас, - улыбающееся".

"Если это будет лицо России, лицо, которое улыбается другим странам, мне кажется, это правильно, - заметил президент. - Но и нам должны улыбаться. Мы не должны ни на кого скрежетать зубами, злиться, дуться, считать, что нас обижают, затирают куда-то, заталкивают в угол, а мы на это реагируем каким-то образом"

Soft power (buyu zuulun huch) bol olon uls sudlald neleed ertnees garch irsen cliche ch gemeer oilgolt. Suuliin 20 jild (soft power-iig hamgiin anh Joseph Nye 1990 ond tomyolson) soft power Amerikiin gadaad bodlogiin gol tsum ni bolj irsen gej uzdeg humuus olon bii. Hyataduud ch soft power-t shiljij buig B. Indra (unuu blog bicheed baidag nuhur mun uu?) deehne ontolson baisan. Gehdee Orosuudiin huvid genet neg shuniin dotor zuulun huched shiljchihsen yum bish. Orosuud ali Putin-ii uyes ehlen soft power deer tushiglehiig oroldsoor irsen (Brookings Institute - "Russia's Newly Found 'Soft Power'" [2004]). Harin odoonoos l amjilt olj ehelj bui yum uu daa (Financial Times uuniig because of "a series of fortuitous events" gesen baisan).

Mun tuunchlen sayhan NYTimes deer garsan niitlel deer Kyrgyzstanii "huvisgald" Orosuudiin soft power herhen ashiglasniig neleed unemshilteygeer uguuljee:

Rather than a change of heart on press freedoms, still stifled at home, Russia’s stance in Kyrgyzstan appeared to be a new tactic in dealing with the former Soviet republics it regards as within its sphere of influence. Backing freedom of expression — in this case to oppose a leader with whom it was unhappy — was just one element of a wider, behind-the-scenes role in the uprising that may help Russia win influence in the new government.[...]

But Russia appears to have learned well the lessons of the so-called color revolutions in Georgia, Ukraine and Kyrgyzstan in the past decade. In those uprisings, which overthrew governments allied with Russia but that had become alienated from their own populations, the West provided open support for opposition elites and free media.

Harin end Orosuud Mongold Kyrgyzstaniih shig uil yavdliig bii bolgono geh metiin hii dugnelt hiimeerguy baina. Gehdee endees olon ulsiin - yalanguya manai hoyor hurshiin - gadaad bodlogiin uzel barimtlal asar ih uurchlugduj buig olj ajiglah ni chuhal. Ene nuhtsuld neg talaaraa soft power-t avtaj Ukraine shig teneg alham hiihguy baih, nuguu talaaraa yum l bol Orosuud Hyataduud Mongold bolj bui buhnii ard baina gej orilj humuusiin dund utga uchirguy aidas devreehguy baih uchirtay.

Solitude and Leadership

[...]the way to do it is by thinking through these issues for yourself—morality, mortality, honor—so you will have the strength to deal with them when they arise. Waiting until you have to confront them in practice would be like waiting for your first firefight to learn how to shoot your weapon. Once the situation is upon you, it’s too late. You have to be prepared in advance. You need to know, already, who you are and what you believe: not what the Army believes, not what your peers believe (that may be exactly the problem), but what you believe.

How can you know that unless you’ve taken counsel with yourself in solitude? I started by noting that solitude and leadership would seem to be contradictory things. But it seems to me that solitude is the very essence of leadership. The position of the leader is ultimately an intensely solitary, even intensely lonely one. However many people you may consult, you are the one who has to make the hard decisions. And at such moments, all you really have is yourself.

Yur ni bol Steve Jobs mayagiin "stay hungry, stay foolish" gesen yarianuudad durguy - heterhii schmaltzy sanagdaad baidag yum. Ene blog deer ch tiimerhuu yumnuud neg ih haraad baidagguy baih. Harin Deresiewicz-iin (review-nuud deeree zohiolchdiig hair nairguy muuldgaaraa aldartay er) Westpoint-d unshsan ene lecture ih setgel hudulguv. Yalanguya uursdiin gesen itgel unemshilguy, yos zuiguy, unet zuilsguy bidnii uyeiinhen mash anhaaraltay unshih heregtey.

Bayarkhuu's Complacency

Bayarkhuu zunusun yum uu ali esvel bi sanal niilehee baisan yum uu buu med, lav l tuunii unuudur News.mn deer bichsen niitlel ni namaig ih buhimduulav. "Зовлогоо зовоохгүй мөнгө олдог хамгийн мэргэн арга" hemeeh niitleldee Mongoliin top diplomat, ih surguuliin tomoohon professor hun gehed itgemeerguy zuils bichjee. Hamgiin engiin jishee: Bayarkhuugiinheer bol Lichtenstein geh met tatvarguy, ali esvel mash baga tatvartay ornuud ni "'Тax heaven' буюу 'Татварын диваажин' гэх хоч нэр"-tey yum baih. Arai ch dee. Ene talaar buhel buten niitlel bichij baigaa hun haven (haven - ayulguy gazar, orognoh gazar, boomt) gedgiig heaven bolgoj unshchihsan tuuj yavah. Egypt-d ochood gadnii diplomat-uudad ulsaa "divaajin" bolgono gej heleed onigoond orooguy l baigaasay daa.

Za ene ichgevter aldaa ni ch yahav getel bichsen niitleld ni yamar ch hariutslaga alga. Yunii umnu tereer Mongoliig "tax heaven" [sic] bolgoj bolohguy yum uu gesen gaihamshigtay mergen sanaa devshuuljee. Uuniigee Lichtenstein-ii usrenguy hugjluur jishee avan batlahiig oroldson baina. Lichtenstein ingej hugjsun uchraas bid bas ter zamaar hugjij bolno - so far so good. Getel busad ornuud bas teneg bish shuu dee. Ted yagaad tax haven bolohiig oroldooguy yum be? Uuniig heregjuulehed yamar saad totgor uchirdag yum be? Uund neg ch hariult uguuguy baina. Tegeheer endees Bayarkhuu busdiin olj haraaguyg olj harsan suut uhaantan gesenshuu dugnelt garah yum uu daa. Asuudliin hoyor taliig haruuldagguy iimerhuu hariutslagaguy niitlel bichdegee manaihan bolih heregtey.

Yag jiliin umnu Financial Times deer John Kay-iin tax haven-ii talaarh niitleliig unshij baisan yum. Tend Bayarkhuugiin helehees zailshiisen negen chuhal caveat-iig duridsan baisan:

If you operate in the penumbra of legality, as havens do, it is easy to slip outside the bonds of legality altogether. Where there is legal avoidance of tax and regulation, illegal avoidance of tax and regulation is rarely far behind, and often hard to distinguish: where there is secrecy the motive is frequently impropriety; where there is impropriety, criminality is rarely far behind, and hard to distinguish. To turn a blind eye to avoidance of the law is to undermine all law.

The upshot: odoohondoo Bayarkhuugiin "Зовлогоо зовоохгүй мөнгө олдог хамгийн мэргэн арга"-iig unshsanaas John Kay-iin "How to make money without trying"-iig unshih ni iluu ur uguujtey yum uu daa, gegege.

The World’s Ugliest Statues

When bad art and bad politics meet.

Khan!!! Much of the world thinks of Genghis Khan as a brutal conqueror whose empire stretched across most of Asia by the early 13th century, but in Mongolia, he's seen as a national hero and a lucrative tourist draw. Everything from airports and hotels to cigarettes and vodka bear his name, but Mongolia's most extreme instance of Genghis worship may be the 131-foot equestrian statue overlooking the steppes about an hour from Ulan Bator, the capital city. The statue is wrapped in 250 tons of stainless steel, and visitors can take an elevator to the top of the horse's head. Genghis himself would probably be proud.

Foreign Policy - The World’s Ugliest Statues No.8

Florence Observed

Ponte Vecchio last Monday

Эйжафжаллажөкүлл (haha!) galt uulaas bolj butsaj ireh gej aihtar yum bolov. Yurduu hoyor tsag hurehtey uguytey nisdeg gazar yag buuhiin davaan deer galt uuliin utaanii surgaar uur hotod gazardav. Heden tsag ongotsnii buudliin shalan deer hevtej baigaad galt tergend suusan bolovch (medeej suudal duursen tul shalan deer) bas l zorison gazraa yag hurehiin aldad galt teregnii mashinist-iin bie muudaj dahin uur galt tereg huleen shiljij suuh bolov - dahiad 4 tsag shalan deer buyu 2 tsagiin aylal maani 20 tsag bol sunjirav... Gehdee ih moritoy yavsan. Surguuliin ihenh professor, suragchid Rome-d yalt ch uguy gatschihaad mungu tugrugguy hetsuudej baigaa suragtay. Ene yanzaaraa Эйжафжаллажөкүлл taivshirtal hicheel ch oligtoy orohguy bololtoy. Kuee, haa gazriin galt uul mani meted ni ingej nuluuluh gej.

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Tristan and Isolde at Staatsoper

Ungursun buten saind hedii 3 honog untalguy essay bichsen ch Staatsoper-t Wagner-iin Tristan and Isolde-iig 6 tsag setgel dogdlon uzev. Neg talaaraa Tristan and Isolde-iig ali ertnii uzehiig muruudsun, nuguu talaaraa Daniel Barenboim udirdaj baigaa bolhoor ch ter uu ene togloltiig neleed udaan huleesen yum. Barenboim-iin huvid humuus medeh baih. Barag udguu amid baigaa hamgiin mundag udirdaach (no offense Gergiev), bas tuguldur huurch. Tuunii tuhain uyedee hanilj baisan Jacqueline du Pre-giin hamtaar bichuulsen Haydn, Elgar hoyoriin Cello Concerto, Schubert-iin Trout Quintet bol dahin davtagdashguy.

Minii huvid Barenboim-iig chuham yaj meddeg bolsonoo sain sanahguy baina (perhaps through his political activism?). Gehdee hamgiin anh tuuniig ungursun ond Felix Mendelssohn-ii mendelsnii 200 jiliin oid zoriulsan tuguldur huuriin concert deer harj baisan yum. Tuunees hoish 5 sariin 23-nd dahin Baruun German baiguulagdsanii 60 jiliin oid zoriulan Beethoven-ii 9-r Symphony-g Brandenburg-iin Haalga deer udirdan toglohod ni yag door ni zogson uzej baisan. Tsag iluutey toglodog 9-r symphony-g (CD 74 minute-iin bagtaamjtay baidag ni uuntey holbootoy ch gej yaridag) neg ch temdeglel ashiglalguy tseejeeree udirdsand ni tuhain uyed bishirch baij bilee. Getel ene udaad intermission-toygoo niileed 6 tsag orchim togloson Tristan and Isolde-iig shuud tseejeeree udirdaj namaig bur heleh ugguy bolgov.

Tristan and Isolde-iin huvid ugtaan bol asar ertnii domog. Lav l anhniih ni huvilbar 1150 orchim ond harialagddag geh yum bilee. Bur ug ehiig ni haival dahiad heden zuun jil uhrah biz (King Arthur-iin tuuh deer gardag Lancelot, Guinevere hoyor bol ene domgiin bas neg huvilbar). Gehdee Wagner-iin huvid uuriin oper-oo Gottfried von Strassburg-iin Tristan (13-r zuun) deer suurilan bichsen gedeg. Sonirholtoy ni yag uuruu unshaad uzvel ene hoyoriin hoorond neleed ih yalgaa bii. End bichij nurshmaarguy baina. Harin Wagner-iin huvid terhuu zohioliin hamgiin chuhal 3 hesgiig libretto deeree buulgasan yum (zohioliin uil yavdal ni interneteer duuren tul end bichihees zailshiiv).

Buddhism baruunii soyol irgenshild tsoo shinechlel avchrana ene ter gej yaridag humuus ene opera-g saitar uzehiig zuvluyu. Yur ni sain yarival 19-r zuunii suul hagast Nietzsche, Schopenhauer-aar damjin Buddhism neleed huchtey orj irsen baidag. Wagner ch tuhain uyedee Schopenhauer-t avtaj baisan ni tuunii buteluudees ilt medregddeg (philosophy of the "will," for instance). Tristan and Isolde jishee ni ter chigtee udur/shunu, uhel/amidral, unen/hudal gesen arga bilgiin uhaan deer suurilsan baidag. Uil yavdliin huvid ch gol hudulgugch huch ni enehuu hoyor taluudiin zorchildoon yum.


Togloltoos setgeld hamgiin todoor uldsen negen zuil ni yah argaguy taiz zasalt. Aldart taiz zasagch Hans Schavernoch-iin buteesen fallen angel-iig harsan hun bolgon shuud l "brilliant!" gej duu aldahaar bailaa. Zohioliin act bur uur uur gazar boldog buguud tuhai burt ni unuuh angel-iin hushuug erguulehed zohitsoh taiz bii bolno (ene tsaashaagaa harsan zurag gants oldson ni). Yaj ingej setgej chadsan bainaa...

Togloltiin huvid medeej amidaar uzej baigaa bolhoor gaihaltay baiv. Gehdee urid umnu ni denduu olon sain recording sonsson tul arai l setgeld hurch chadsanguy. Humuusiin huvid medeej durtay recording-uud ni uur uur. Minii huvid bol 1952 onii Bayreuth deer (Wagner-iin uuriinh ni bii bolgoson festival - Nietzsche-giin Ecce Homo uunii talaar neleed marzan tailbaruud bii) Herbert von Karajan-ii udirdsan bichleg hamgiin mundag ni. Yagaad ch yum von Karajan mash hurdan udirddag tul Wagner-t neleed zohitsood baih shig baidag yum. Harin hervee Wagner-iig gunzgii medehiig husvel Leonard Bernstein-ii udaan hemneltey 1981 onii huvilbariig sanal bolgoyo.

Medeej Wagner l bolson hoino tuunii opera-g uzehiin tuld uzegchdees neleed tesver hatuujil shaardana. Bernard Shaw-iin Perfect Wagnerite deer gardag shig Wagner neg ayalguug taniltsuulah bolovch tuuniigee zuvuur ilerhiilehees zoriud zugtana. Sonsogch bur tuhain uyed tolgoidoo zuv ayalguud husen huleeh bolovch Wagner buruu note ugun humuusiig budliantuulj orhino. Ingeh ni neg bodliin ih yadargaatay bolovch nuguu talaaraa uzegchdiig suudald ni tevcheerteygeer uyah gaihamshigtay arga bolj ugdug. Uuruur helbel tuunii opera-nuud deer hamag ayalguunuudiin zangilaa ni zuvhun tugsguld ni tailagddag gesen ug.

Tristan and Isolde-iin huvid opera-iin ehend Prelude (Vorspiele) deer taniltsuulagdsan ayalguunuud buhel togloltiin turshid olon yanzad huvirsaar tugsguld ni butsaj ireh uye ni Tristan-ii uheltey davhtsana. Ene uyed Isolde uuriin Liebestod buyu hair-uhliin duug duulan hairtaa aldsandaa haruusan nas nogchino. Ene ch utgaaraa Liebestod asar ih setgel hudluliig bagtaan tugs hair durlaliin ilerhiilel boldog (nuugaad yahav hamgiin anh sonsood ene heseg deer bi uilj baisan). Hun burt uur uursdiin durtay Liebestod-uud bii (minii uzsen togloltod duulsan Waltraud Meier, bas Maria Callas hoyoriinh hamgiin iheer taashaagdsan ni baij medne). Harin minii huvid hamgiin anhnii Isolde-uudiin neg Kirsten Flagstad-iinh hamgiin mundag ni:



Ertrinken, Versinken, Unbewußt - Höchste Lust!

When Disney Met Marx...

Perhaps the best demonstration of what Marx meant by alienation (Entäusserung):

Modern bourgeois society, with its relations of production, of exchange and of property, a society that has conjured up such gigantic means of production and of exchange, is like the sorcerer who is no longer able to control the powers of the nether world whom he has called up by his spells.

Communist Manifesto, Chapter 1

A Million-Dollar Question

Unuudur delhii deer amid baigaa hamgiin olon hund tanigdsan, ner nuluutey Mongol hun hen be?

*One person I have in mind is Fu Ying. An ethnic Mongolian who served as the Chinese ambassador to the UK until few months ago. And as I understood, currently she's the vice-foreign minister of China. I don't know any other ethnic Mongolian who has held this high position in the world politics in recent years.

Addendum: Lunch with the FT: Madam Fu Ying

Tuvshin's Web Log 5 Нас Хүрлээ!

Яг 5 жилийн өмнөх энэ орой блог дээрээ хамгийн анх бичлэг хийж байсан юм. Тухайн үед хэдий 8-уулаа 2 өрөө байранд шахцалдан амьдардаг байсан ч гэрийнхэн маань надад зориулаад өрөөний нэг буланд номын шүүгээ, ширээ, компьютэр гурвын зай гаргаж өгсөнийх нь үр дүн энэ блог. Хэнд ч хэрэгтэй, яах ч гэж тэгж суудаг байсан юм бүү мэд. Лав л диал-апаар интэрнэтэд холбогдоод шөнөжин интэрнэт ухаж яваад саваагүйтээд үүнийг нээчихсан юм даг. Юутай ч ширээний маань хажууд газар гудсан дээр унтдаг байсан ээж дүү хоёр маань шөнө толгой дээр нь гэрэл асаалаа гэж нэг ч удаа гомдоллож байгаагүйг бодоход намайг өөртөө хэрэгтэй л зүйл хийдэг гэж итгэдэг байсан байх. Одоо эргээд харахад гэрийхнээсээ уйчлал гуймаар.

Ер нь миний үеийнхэн их өрөвдөлтэй. Гадны суваг үзлээ гээд агуулгыг нь ойлгохгүй, ном уншлаа гээд Хүүхэд Залуучуудын Нэвтэрхий Толь III-аас хэтрэхгүй. Дунд сургуульд зарчмын хувьд ээж аавын үзэж байсантай яг адил хичээл үзнэ. Нийгэм нь урагш цойлоод байдаг, бид нар нэг газраа эргэлдээд байдаг. Тэгэхээр тухайн үед интэрнэт бидэнд ямаршуухан том орон зайг нээж өгсөн нь ойлгомжтой.

Мэдээж хэрэг интэрнэт дээрх мэдээллийг өөр гараг дээрээс уншиж байгаа арван жилийн хүүхэд шууд ойлгоход хэцүү. Хэлний бэрхшээлээс авхуулаад соёлын зөрөө, бүр цаашилбал мэдлэгийн дутуугаас болж эхэндээ бараг өөрийгөө тэнэг мэтээр боддог байв. Гэхдээ үүний сайн тал нь гэвэл шинэ юм бүхэн сонирхолтой санагдана. Платоны Симпозиум дээр философийн хамгийн тулгуур нь мэдэхгүйгээ нөхөх гэсэн эрмэлзэл (eros - тэчьяадал) гэсэн байдаг. Яг үүнтэй адил шинээр мэдэж авсан бүхэн дараа дараагийн мэдлэгийн замыг засч улам ихийг мэдэх хүслийг төрүүлнэ. Гэхдээ үүнийг ганцаараа өөрөө өөртөө хадгалаад байх утгагүй. Сократын харилцан ярианы нэгэн адилаар мэдлэг гэдэг байнга хэлэлцэгдэж, дэнслэгдэж, хурцлагдаж байх учиртай. Энэ блог ч чухам тэрхүү санаан дээр үндэслэгдсэн. Харин тэр үүргээ хэр биелүүлж чадаж байгааг сайн мэдэхгүй юм.

Хэрвээ энэ блогын нэг зорилго нь бусадтай мэдсэнээ хуваалцах бол, нөгөө нэг зорилго нь яах аргагүй миний өөрийн хөгжлийг сараас сард, жилээс жилд хэрхэн өөрчлөгдөж буйг танадах. Блогын эхний саруудад ямаршуухан зүйлс бичиж, уншиж байсныг одоогийнхтой харьцуулахад газар тэнгэр шиг ялгаатай. Яваандаа ч нэлээд өөрчлөгдөнө гэдэгт итгэлтэй байна.

Юутай ч энэ олон жил надтай хамт байж миний блогыг цаг гарган уншдаг бүх найзууддаа баярлалаа. Энэ блог ийм олон жил тасралтгүй явж ирсний хамгийн гол хүчин зүйл нь та нар юм шүү.

Сар шинэдээ сайхан шинэлээрэй!

Darth Vader Promoting the Galactic Empire

- С.Баярцогт сайд Нью-Иоркийн бирж дээр очиж биржийн арилжааны нээлтийн хонхыг цохисон нь “Айвенхоу майнз”-ыг сурталчилсан хэрэг боллоо гэсэн мэдээлэл гарсан?

- Оюутолгойн орд газрыг ашиглаж эхэлснээр Монгол Улсын хөгжлийн гарцыг нээж байна. Нью-Иоркийн биржийн арилжааны хонхыг Монголын төлөөлөгч цохино гэдэг бол “Айвенхоу майнз”-ыг бус Монгол Улсыг дэлхий дахинд сурталчилсан хэрэг болсон гэж би ойлгож байгаа. Нью-Йоркийн биржийн хонхыг дэлхийд нэр алдартай хүмүүс уригдан цохидог. Өглөөний арилжааг нээх энэ ёслолыг биржийн арилжаатай амьдралаа холбосон, нийгмийн хамгийн идэвхтэй 120-160 сая хүн анхааран үзэж байдаг гэдэг утгаараа энэ бол Монгол Улсын сурталчилсан нэр төрийн хэрэг гэж үзэж байна. Манайханд одоогоор биржийн талаарх ойлголт бага байгаа учир энэ талаар маргаад байх зүйл алга даа.

С.Баярцогт: Би “Айвенхоу майнз”-ийг биш Монгол Улсаа сурталчилсан