The White House says Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping plan to meet in Shenzhen next week on the sidelines of the APEC summit to discuss nuclear weapons reduction, with no agreement expected.
The White House has said that Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping plan to meet in Shenzhen, China, next week on the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit.
The White House spokeswoman Olivia Wales told reporters that Trump will conclude his visit to China with a trilateral meeting between the president of the United States, the president of the People's Republic of China, and the president of the Russian Federation. She said the president has made it clear that, among other topics, he will discuss the reduction of nuclear weapons in the world, whose proliferation President Trump believes is very dangerous.
U.S. officials said Trump plans to discuss Iran with Xi and Putin, but will steer away from discussing Russia's war in Ukraine. One senior U.S. official said Washington has a separate track of negotiations with Kyiv and Moscow aimed at ending the war in Ukraine, and that China is not really a part of that track. No agreement was expected to follow the talks, an unnamed senior American official said, according to news agencies AP and Reuters.
A nuclear weapons control treaty between the US and Russia expired in February, leaving the world's biggest nuclear arsenals without major guardrails. The UN has urged both sides to agree a new framework without delay. Trump has said he could replace the deal with a better agreement which included China, which has been building up its arsenal.
Trump will arrive in Shenzhen late on Wednesday for the two-day summit between the 21 member states. He will also take part in bilateral talks with Xi on Thursday - their fourth meeting since the US president returned to office in 2025. Trump's trip will also include attending an Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) summit in the Philippines on Tuesday.
The meeting would be the first trilateral gathering of the leaders of the United States, China and Russia. It comes as the last nuclear arms pact between Washington and Moscow has expired, removing caps on the two largest atomic arsenals for the first time in more than a half-century. Analysts say expectations are low that the talks will lead to major breakthroughs and say they will be heavier in symbolism than substance.
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The White House says President Trump will meet with Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin on the sidelines of the APEC summit in Shenzhen to discuss Iran and nuclear arms.
