By Paul S. Gardiner Many Americans know that Thomas Jefferson is generally ascribed to have said, âThe price of freedom is eternal vigilance.â This is most certainly the reason for being constantly vigilant about the thinking and planning of those at the top levels of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). From time to time, glimpses of this thinking and planning become evident to people of the free world. Relatively little has been said about the statements made in 2003 by Defense Minister (General) Chi Haotian in a âsecret speechâ to many of his top-level CCP comrades. In 2005, a copy of his speech was obtained by sources outside China. The contents of the speech were confirmed as accurate by certain unpublished defector testimony on Sino-Russian military plans.