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.

This analysis answers: How are Indo-Pacific industrial partnerships reshaping Europe's defence landscape through co-production, targeted technology transfer and distributed manufacturing? How do the approaches of South Korea, Japan and Australia blend industrial capability with statecraft in offering partners systems plus production know-how? How do these partnership methods affect how quickly European forces can equip themselves and respond to strategic pressure? What are the implications for Europe's strategic resilience and industrial base of adopting Indo-Pacific cooperation models?