Trump Xi Putin meeting scheduled in China for historic three-way talks
US President Donald Trump, Chinese President Xi Jinping, and Russian President Vladimir Putin will convene for an unprecedented three-way meeting in Shenzhen next week during the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit. Global diplomatic delegations and foreign policy analysts are tracking the high-stakes trilateral talks, which White House officials confirmed will center on nuclear arms reduction and the conflict in Iran.
White House confirms nuclear reduction and Iran war top agenda while excluding Ukraine
White House spokeswoman Olivia Wales announced that Thursday’s trilateral talks will address nuclear proliferation, a proliferation risk the administration terms dangerous. Trump will also hold a separate bilateral working lunch and meeting with Xi, marking their fourth encounter since the US president’s return to power last year, while US officials maintained that Russia’s war in Ukraine will remain on a separate diplomatic track involving Kyiv and Moscow rather than the Shenzhen agenda.
The upcoming summit follows a sequence of bilateral engagements in the region, though administration officials confirmed that technology export controls and executive corporate matters will not feature in the discussions.
