China says it was smeared in US President Joe Biden's State of the Union address, which repeatedly mentioned competition between the two countries.
China does not fear competing with the US but is "opposed to defining the entire China-US relationship in terms of competition", Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Mao Ning said.
"It is not the practice of a responsible country to smear a country or restrict the country's legitimate development rights under the excuse of competition, even at the expense of disrupting the global industrial and supply chain," Ms Mao said.
