US President Donald Trump will hold a three-way meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin in China next week, the White House announced, in what would be the first trilateral meeting between the leaders of the three nuclear powers.
White House spokeswoman Olivia Wales said the meeting will take place on the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit in the southern Chinese city of Shenzhen, scheduled for 18–19 November.
Nuclear arms and Iran, not Ukraine
According to Wales, Trump will raise the reduction of nuclear weapons in the world, whose spread he regards as extremely dangerous. A senior US official said the president also intends to discuss Iran in the meeting. Ukraine is not expected to be on the agenda; US officials said the war is being handled in a separate track of negotiations with Kyiv and Moscow, in which China does not take part.
US officials played down expectations, saying no agreement is expected from the three-way talks, which they described as a starting point at leader level.
Asia trip
Before China, Trump will travel to the Philippines for the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) summit. In Shenzhen he is due to hold separate talks with Xi on Thursday, their fourth meeting since Trump returned to the White House in 2025.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said earlier this month that Moscow was assessing the agenda of a possible three-way meeting at the APEC summit.
Related
US envoys met Putin in Moscow earlier this week, and NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte called Türkiye a key ally in future security guarantees for Ukraine.
Sources
- Trump’ın Çin programında Şi ve Putin’le üçlü görüşme var (Sözcü / AA)
- Trump, Putin and Xi plan historic joint meeting in China next week, White House says (BBC via Yahoo News)
- Trump, Xi, Putin to hold first ever three-way meeting in China (TRT World)
- Trump, Şi ve Putin Çin’de görüşebilir (Gazete Oksijen)
- Kremlin: Rusya, ABD ve Çin, APEC Zirvesi’nde planlanan olası üçlü görüşmenin gündemini değerlendiriyor (İLKHA)
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