Asia's middle powers are building new regional order

Loose minilateral groupings are helping address specific problems

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Indonesian Investment Minister Bahlil Lahadalia at a news conference in Jakarta on Jan. 7: His country aims to build an OPEC-like organization to control trade in nickel, cobalt and manganese. © Antara Foto/Reuters

Narayanappa Janardhan is a senior research fellow at the Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy in Abu Dhabi and a nonresident fellow at the Arab Gulf States Institute in Washington. Maximilian Mayer is junior professor of international relations and the global politics of technology at Germany's University of Bonn.

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