Shenzhen: US President
Donald Trump, Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin
will hold the first three-way meeting between their countries’ leaders next
week, the White House announced Friday. The talks are set for Thursday on the
sidelines of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit in the
southern Chinese city. White House spokeswoman Olivia Wales said Trump will
raise reducing the world’s nuclear arsenals, which he considers dangerously
proliferated.
US officials said Trump
also plans to bring up the war in Iran but does not expect to discuss Russia’s
war in Ukraine. They said Washington is pursuing a separate track of
negotiations with Kyiv and Moscow, one that does not include China, so the
Shenzhen meeting is not the right venue. Trump is not scheduled to hold a
separate one-on-one meeting with Putin.
Trump will also hold a
bilateral working lunch and meeting with Xi on Thursday, their fourth encounter
since he returned to office last year. Tesla and SpaceX chief Elon Musk will
travel with Trump but will not take part in the talks with Xi and Putin.
Officials said the resignation of Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang over an affair with
an alleged Chinese spy is not expected to come up, and that Washington will not
negotiate chip export controls, which they described as national security
matters.
Trump leaves Washington on Monday and will first attend the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) summit in the Philippines on Tuesday before heading to Shenzhen.
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