US projecting its own image on China, Beijing says

Beijing has slammed Washington for its "obsession with the Cold War thinking" and "serious misjudgment of China and China-US relations", hitting back at recent remarks made by United States Secretary of State Antony Blinken.

In an article he penned for the Foreign Affairs magazine on Oct 1, Blinken called China "the only country with the intent and the means to reshape the international system" and the "pacing challenge" for the US.

Dismissing the comments as "nothing new", Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Mao Ning said the US is viewing China through the perspective of its own history of hegemony and its own hegemonic thinking.

Such misjudgment does not conform with the fundamental interests of the people of China and the US or the common aspiration of the international community, Mao told a regular news briefing on Tuesday.

"Great power competition is not in line with the trend of the times, and will not solve the US' own problems and the challenges faced by the world," she said.

China has always worked to safeguard world peace, contribute to global development and preserve international order, Mao said.

"In fact, it is the US, not anyone else, that has been engaged with unfair competition, aggressive actions, muscle-flexing and coercion," Mao said.