China says it was smeared in Biden’s State of the Union speech

President Joe Biden delivers the State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress at the US Capitol (Patrick Semansky/AP)

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 at a daily briefing on Wednesday.