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Middle powers are the new architects of the world order

How emerging nations are bridging the deepening rifts between major powers

| Southeast Asia
Pakistan's Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif inspects the honor guard at the Prime Minister's House in Islamabad on March 4. Pakistan has entered the category of being a middle power.   © Reuters

Dino Patti Djalal, previously Indonesia's ambassador to the U.S., is founder and chairman of the Foreign Policy Community of Indonesia and chair of Middle Power Studies Network.

Public discourse on international affairs usually points to the rise of China as the hallmark of the evolving world order.

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