The 90-second rhetoric tirade against the US by anchor Kang Hui on the 13th May evening edition of the Party's flagship news program, Xinwen Lianbo on the state-owned CCTV was strong and has become an internet sensation in China. Some excerpts from CCTV: “China has made its position clear from the beginning: it doesn't want to fight, but it is not afraid to fight.”; “The Chinese nation has experienced 5,000 years of trials and tribulations; what kind of struggle have we not seen?”