Satyajit Das, a former banker, is the author of "A Banquet of Consequences: Reloaded" and "Fortune's Fool: Australia's Choices."
The courtship of India by the U.S. and its allies in recent years, intended to offset the rise of China, is a clumsy attempt to compensate for the West's declining military potency, economic weakness, flagging industrial competitiveness, aging population and sociopolitical divisions.
