Mongolia's Giant Steppe for Democracy John J. Tkacik, Jr. July 9, 2004 Mongolian troops serving in Iraq Democracy in Asia has been full of irony of late. Last week, up to half a million people took to the streets in Hong Kong to protest China's decision that one of the world's most modern cities is still not ready for democracy. Meanwhile the predominantly pastoral population of formerly Communist Mongolia reveled in their democratic freedoms by voting in the country's eighth general election since 1990. The surprisingly strong performance by a coalition of democratic candidates in Mongolia's June 27 polls was...