WASHINGTON: The United States and China held a new round of strategic talks on Wednesday, part of a high-level effort to manage friction in increasingly complex relations.

State Department’s deputy spokesman Adam Ereli said the two-day meeting in Washington would cover bilateral issues as well as international topics including Iraq and Sudan and the nuclear ambitions of North Korea and Iran.

“They will be looking at a number of issues — bilateral, security-related, economic-related — in a strategic context, with the aim of exploring the responsibility that both countries share to make the international system more secure and more prosperous over the long term,” he said.

“They will also look to the long term, over the horizon, to the future of US and Chinese relations and what we hope that the relationship will look like,” Mr Ereli added.—Reuters