Good morning.

The President’s trip to the PRC was a failure?

That’s what the Washington Post imparts. The President made “no real breakthroughs of any sort.” He “won no concrete agreements.” They have the White House excusing themselves by pointing out that they had said nothing would happen, but the paper boasts that “a politically weakened Bush returns home without anything high-profile to brag about when he could use some good news.”

And now we see how easy it is to turn a cordial bit of diplomacy into a political failure. Pete Baker and Phil Dan, WashPost writers both, get to draw their picture. The paper seems to want to be certain that the President receives no relief from his Presidential maneuvers on the world stage.

The New York Times pointed out that “none of the human rights cases on a list President Bush gave to Mr. Hu at their first meeting this year had been resolved by the time Mr. Bush stepped into the Great Hall of the People on Sunday morning.” Their first meeting was two months ago in September.

USA Today, however, points to “movement in talks with Chinese President Hu Jintao on trade, currency and the piracy of movies and other copyrighted material.” And that Bush was the first ever U.S. President to visit Mongolia.