U.S. policy toward China was rather "open." America didn't claim China as a territory or anything, they just tried to have an influence in it, an economic opening for trade (p.562). They made a deal with the other countries in China to share trading rights with the Americans.
In the Philippines, America played the role Spain had in Cuba. They claimed the Philippines as their territory and put rebels in areas like concentration camps, starting a little war with the Philippines.
I think America acted different with China than with the Philippines because China was A) too large for Americans to control by themselves, B) being inhabited by other powerful countries, and C) not exactly what America was looking for in terms of a little colony that they could own but could govern itself and just provide a trade post for American products; China was a different, bigger deal.
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