C3S Occasional Paper 2/26 - Innovation Without Alliances? Lessons From India And China’s Strategic Technology Partnership Models: By Inas Fathima

Image Courtesy: Indian Press Information Bureau (PIB)Abstract Technological innovation has become a pivotal driver of national power, economic resilience, and strategic influence in the contemporary international system. In an era where advanced and emerging technologies—ranging from artificial intelligence and semiconductors to telecommunications and defense systems—are tightly interwoven with national security imperatives, states confront a profound strategic dilemma: whether it is feasible to