Sentence:  Even a senior Chinese scholar-official who had been <WSD>politically correcting</WSD> my arguments and opinions throughout the conference smiled and accepted that the academic standards to which we both had to comply were quite different—I would be ridiculed by my own colleagues were I to adopt the standards of China, which he nonetheless deemed the (officially sanctioned) correct ones. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  To modify in a way that conforms more to the official position of a government or political party.