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New Party recruitment rules put loyalty to Xi front and center

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If you want to join the Party, you gotta be down with Xi Jinping. On May 18, the Party General Office released updated rules for recruiting new Party members.

The rules – last revised in 2014 – lay out the requirements and procedures for Party organizations at different levels to recruit new member...