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Xi Jinping wants only the reddest of red as fellow comrades.  

That's making it tougher for young people to join the Party.

On Friday, the Central Organization Department dropped its 2022 Communist Party membership numbers (12371.CN, Xinhua):  

Total Party members increased 1.4% y/y, to 98 m...