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

Members of the Navy working on a device on a vessel along the InterCoastal Waterway in North Myrtle Beach, SC. Using underwater drones, warships and inflatable vessels, the Navy is carrying out an extensive operation to gather all of the pieces of the massive Chinese spy balloon a US fighter jet shot down off the coast of South Carolina. - AP

BEIJING (AP): China says it was smeared in US President Joe Biden’s State of the Union address that 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 spokesperson Mao Ning said at a daily briefing on Wednesday.