On May 17, the official Chinese Communist Party (CCP) newspaper 'People's Daily' published a commentary captioned 'No power can stop the Chinese people from realising their dreams'. It reiterated the three points of contention in the trade talks that were spelled out by Vice Premier Liu He namely, the three core issues of concern to China are the cancellation of all tariffs; that trade purchases be in line with reality; and that the text of the agreement be revised so as to be more balanced. He also stressed these issues must be resolved. The people's Daily added the trade war has highlighted a need for technological self-sufficiency. It said this trade friction has made us more aware that we have shortcomings in terms of economic structure, quality of development, and core technologies. It added [We must] enhance the sense of urgency in accelerating indigenous innovation and resolve the bottleneck imposed by insufficient mastery of core technologies. Separately, state media outlets appeared to be stoking nationalist sentiment. On May 16 and 17, CCTV replaced regularly scheduled programming with two films about the Chinese army fighting the US in the Korean War.