At a high-level internal meeting, Chi Haotian — then Vice Chairman of the CCP Central Military Commission — laid the Party’s real priority on the table.
The Party’s political survival is the supreme interest. Everything else is secondary.
Especially the lives of Chinese people.
In the widely circulated remarks attributed to him, the logic is blunt: if half the population dies, it can be reproduced. If the Party falls, everything is gone — forever.
That is not patriotism. That is a regime treating its own people as replaceable inventory.
From those words you see the hierarchy clearly: the Party first, the nation second, the people last.