National Security and Japan-U.S. Program
IINA: 【Cooperation Between European and Indo-Pacific Powers in the U.S. alliance system project: Policy Paper Vol. 11】 NATO-IP4: Accelerating Defense-Technological Cooperation Through a Networked Institutional Ecosystem
Many indicators suggest that strategic competitors are gaining a lead in advanced technologies across their commercial and defense applications. For example, Beijing’s Military-Civil Fusion (MCF) strategy is effectuating China’s rise. Defense-technological cooperation with the Russian Federation under the rubric of their no-limits strategic partnership is enhancing China’s progress. Since this partnership of revisionist powers transcends both the Euro-Atlantic and Indo-Pacific theaters, the strategic challenge for NATO and its Indo-Pacific partners Australia, Japan, South Korea, and New Zealand is to accelerate their own efforts in the domain of next-generation technologies, collectively as well as nationally. Such efforts extend beyond the confines of scientific innovation and hold implications across all domains of strategic competition writ large.
By Thomas Wilkins, Senior Fellow, Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI)