Joseph Bosco applauds Nicholas Kristof’s praise of Bush, and bashing of the Democrats, over China policy. I concur, but the dynamic of this is still really weird.

Nicholas Kristof scores again, but the victim of his dagger prose in today’s The New York Times (reg req) is the American political scene, not the Chinese. He takes a number of liberal Democrats in Congress to the whipping post over bad foreign policy towards Beijing. And he gives credit–mostly correctly–to Bush for five years of good foreign policy towards Beijing…

So it’s time for Americans to take a deep breath. Poisonous trade disputes with China will only aggravate the risks ahead, strengthen the hard- liners in Beijing and leave ordinary Chinese feeling that Americans are turning into China-bashers. Sadly, they’ll have a point.