Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi says China does not fear confrontation with the United States, but welcomes cooperation if it is mutually beneficial.
In a speech on Monday posted on the Foreign Ministry website, Mr Wang said there was "no harm" in competition between the two nations, but it should be "positive".
Mr Wang said current problems in the US-China relationship were down to "strategic misjudgements" on the American side.
In a call last month that lasted for more than three hours, US President Joe Biden pressed his counterpart, Xi Jinping, on human rights.
During their virtual summit, Mr Xi warned that China would respond to what it called provocation in relation to Taiwan.
Speaking about Taiwan, Mr Wang reaffirmed Beijing's determination to bring the island under its control.
He called Taiwan a "wanderer" that would eventually come home and warned it was not a chess piece to be played with.
China claims democratically governed Taiwan as its own territory.
In the past two years, Beijing has stepped up military and diplomatic pressure to assert its sovereignty claims, angering Taipei and causing deep concerns in Washington.
Mr Wang — who is also a state councillor, in addition to his role as Foreign Minister — said the cause of current tensions was the Taiwan government's attempts to "rely on the United States for independence".
The US and other countries were trying to "use Taiwan to control China", he added.
"It is these perverse actions that have changed the status quo and undermined the peace in the Taiwan Strait," said Mr Wang, who is a former head of China's Taiwan Affairs Office.
"[It is] violating the consensus of the international community and the basic norms of international relations."
To respond to this, China had taken "forceful countermeasures" to "shock the arrogance" of those who seek Taiwan's formal independence, he said.
China has been particularly angered by support for Taiwan from the US, the island's most important international backer and arms supplier, despite the absence of formal diplomatic ties.
Taipei has repeatedly denounced China's pressure, saying only Taiwan's people have the right to decide their future and that they will not give in to threats.
The defeated Republic of China government fled to Taiwan in 1949 after losing a civil war with the Communists, who established the People's Republic of China.
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