Indo-Pacific Industrial Partnerships and Their Impact on Europe’s Strategic Resilience
Indo-Pacific partnerships are beginning to shape Europe’s defence landscape in ways that were largely unthinkable only a few years ago. As Asian democracies accelerate their own industrial modernisation, they are also exporting methods of cooperation—co-production, targeted technology transfer, and distributed manufacturing—that are quietly altering how European forces equip themselves and how quickly they can respond to strategic pressure. South Korea, Japan and Australia have each adopted approaches that blend industrial capability with statecraft, offering partners not only advanced systems but also access to the know-how and production models behind them. For European governments facing urgent timelines and constrained industrial depth, these arrangements are becoming more than commercial alternatives: they are emerging as enablers of resilience, capacity expansion and supply-chain diversification at a moment when speed and reliability are decisive. This report examines how these Indo-Pacific dynamics are beginning to influence European choices, reshape procurement pathways and redefine the geography of capability generation across allied democracies. Full access to the analysis is reserved for subscribers.