US President Donald Trump plans to meet Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin on the sidelines of the APEC summit in Shenzhen, the White House says.
White House spokeswoman Olivia Wales said Trump would discuss reducing nuclear weapons, among other topics. Trump believes the proliferation of those weapons is very dangerous, she told reporters.
According to AFP via Channel News Asia, a senior US official said Trump also intended to discuss Iran at the three-way meeting, but was not expected to raise Russia’s war in Ukraine. The official said Washington had a separate track of negotiations with Kyiv and Moscow.
A senior US official said no agreement was expected from the talks, DW reported. The outlet also said Moscow and Beijing had not commented on the White House announcement. Chinese state media had reported that Xi would hold bilateral talks at the summit, but had not mentioned a trilateral meeting.
