External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on September 03 said that Indo-Pacific is the logical step after Act East for India. He said that the Indo-pacific was not tomorrow's forecast, but yesterday's reality. The Indo-Pacific naturally meant different things to different powers, but it is undeniably a priority for all of them. For India, it is the logical step after Act East and a break out from the confines of South Asia. Jaishankar was speaking at the Indian Ocean Conference in Maldives.