President Trump, Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping will hold the first three-way meeting between the three leaders at a summit in China next week, the White House announced Friday.
The three leaders will meet on the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit in Shenzhen, southern China, on Thursday, November 19, White House spokesperson Olivia Wales told reporters.
The Kremlin also confirmed the meeting on Saturday.
Mr. Trump wants to talk about reducing nuclear arsenals during the trilateral negotiations and is also expected to raise the issue of reducing nuclear arsenals. war in Iran – but he shouldn’t discuss it Russia’s war in Ukraineofficials said.
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“The president has made it clear that he will discuss, among other topics, the reduction of nuclear weapons around the world. This proliferation, President Trump believes, is very dangerous,” Wales said.
One of the major conflicts that will dominate Mr. Trump’s second term as president will be present, but not the other, U.S. officials said.
“I think the president intends to talk about Iran in the trilateral meeting with Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin,” a senior U.S. official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said in a phone call.
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Washington has a “completely different path” of negotiations with kyiv and Moscow aimed at ending the war in Ukraine, the official added, referring to discussions American envoys have had in recent days with Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
“China is not really part of this track, so it does not seem appropriate to have a discussion on Ukraine there,” the official added.
Mr. Trump will also hold a bilateral working lunch and meeting with the Chinese president on Thursday – their fourth meeting since the president returned to power last year.
The United States also has no plans to discuss export controls on sensitive chip technologies, which were at the heart of the Nvidia scandal.
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“We are not negotiating U.S. export controls. These are national security issues that we are developing within the administration … and we do not expect that to feature in any of our conversations with the Chinese while we are there,” the second official said.
Tesla and SpaceX boss Elon Musk will accompany Mr. Trump on his trip to China but will not attend the meeting with Xi and Putin, the officials said.
Mr. Trump will leave Washington on Monday and arrive in the Philippines on Tuesday for an Association of Southeast Asian Nations summit before heading to Shenzhen.
Planning for the summit has drawn comparisons to the Yalta Conference, the 1945 meeting at which U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Britain’s Winston Churchill and Soviet leader Joseph Stalin agreed to divide Germany and Berlin into four military occupation zones and finalized plans for the creation of the United Nations after World War II.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov rejected comparisons with Yalta, stressing that potential agreements reached in Shenzhen could not be applied to others.
“It is clear that a meeting between the leaders of countries like Russia, China and the United States is extremely significant,” Peskov said. “However, let us not forget that the vision of a world order is that no one attempts to impose a particular vision of the world order, and that it must be based entirely on mutual benefit and respect.”
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