Washington, Nov. 28 -- The United States and India on November 21 concluded the first land, sea, and air exercise which the Trump White House considered a step forward in its efforts to deepen defense cooperation between the two countries amid Washington's serious endeavor to restore its military supremacy in the Indo-Pacific region to face the growing expansion of China.

Washington is teamed-up with its Asia-Pacific allies, and has strategically brought-in 'willing partners' - one of which is Sri Lanka during 2016 through 2019 - toward its Asia-Pacific region ambitions.

When Sri Lanka's newly elected president Gotabaya Rajapaksa is on a two-day 29-30 November visit to New Delhi on the invitation of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, one can...