WASHINGTON: The United States on Friday (Saturday in Manila) insisted it was not pursuing a new “Cold War” with China, but the Pacific powers could only paper over deep differences during high-level talks.

The defense chiefs and top foreign affairs officials of the two countries met in Washington for a regular dialogue that had been pushed back amid months of spiraling tensions between the world’s two largest economies.

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