Indian Navy to hold Indo-Pacific Regional Dialogue on Nov 23, 2022.

November 21, 2022

With China adopting an aggressive stance in the Indo-Pacific, security experts and strategic thinkers will review its impact on the region during the three-day conference at New Delhi beginning November 23.
It is part of the Indian Navy’s annual international meet called the “Indo-Pacific Regional Dialogue” (IPRD).
The overarching theme of this year’s conference is Operationalising the “Indo-Pacific Oceans Initiative” (IPOI) Programme. The discourse is being led by the National Maritime Foundation( NMF), which is also the Indian Navy’s knowledge partner.
In 2018, the initial conception of an IPRD was made. With the exception of 2020, when it had to be postponed owing to the Covid-19 epidemic, the event has been hosted annually since its initial year in 2018.
The IPRD reviews the current geopolitics in the Indo-Pacific region and identifies opportunities, dangers, and problems that might be present. It is difficult to exaggerate how important the IPRD is since it is not only essential to India’s own policy-formulation but also to all other nations in the region.
Additionally, IPRD remains crucial to its interests because one of the main goals of the NMF is to conduct analyses of international relations and geopolitical factors that are important to India strategically, with the aim of proposing maritime Confidence-Building Measures (CBMs) and amplifying maritime cooperation among seafaring nations as well as to achieve a sustainable security environment in the Indo-Pacific Region.
As the term “Indo-Pacific,” recognises the geopolitical unity of littoral nation-states of the Indian Ocean and the Pacific Ocean across a primarily oceanic regional-expanse, it has become intrinsic to global political, economic, and strategic discourse over the past ten years, and as such the Indo-Pacific region continues to be synonymous with the IPRD.