Ahead of this year’s Two Sessions, the weeklong meeting of China’s largely rubber-stamp parliament that started on March 4, President Xi Jinping released another volume of his speeches—this time on what the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) calls the “correct view of political performance,” a concept that has become the centerpiece of an ongoing campaign to redefine how officials are judged. The timing is highly suggestive. For months, Beijing has been urging cadres across the country to rethink