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Historic threesome at the APEC summit: Trump, Putin and Xi meet...
... and don't talk about the Ukraine war. The conversation on the sidelines of the summit in China on Thursday will be about nuclear disarmament and Iran. more...
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afp | US President Donald Trump, Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping will meet next week for a historic meeting in China, according to the White House. The meeting next Thursday in Shenzhen, China, is the first three-way meeting ever between the heads of state of the USA, Russia and China, as the White House announced on Friday. The talks are apparently about nuclear disarmament and Iran - but not about the Russian war of aggression against Ukraine.
The three-way meeting will therefore take place on the sidelines of the summit of the Asia-Pacific Economic Community (Apec). “The president has made it clear that, among other things, he will discuss reducing nuclear weapons worldwide,” White House spokeswoman Olivia Wales told reporters.
According to a senior US government official, the talks between Trump and his colleagues from China and Russia will also focus on the war in Iran. On the other hand, it cannot be assumed that Trump will also address the Ukraine war at the meeting with Putin and Xi, the official said on Friday.
“I think the president does indeed intend to talk about Iran at the trilateral meeting with Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin,” the U.S. official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, told reporters in a conference call. With regard to Kyiv and Moscow, however, Washington is pursuing a “completely different line of negotiation.” “China is not really part of this negotiating line, so it does not seem appropriate to discuss the Ukraine issue there,” the official said.
According to US government circles, tech billionaire Elon Musk will accompany the US President on the trip to China. However, the head of Tesla and SpaceX is not taking part in the talks with Putin and Xi.
According to government officials, a bilateral working lunch and a meeting between Trump and Xi are also planned for Thursday - it would be the fourth meeting between the two heads of state since Trump took office last year. However, a separate one-on-one conversation between Trump and Putin is not planned.
According to the information, Trump will arrive in the Philippines on Tuesday to take part in the Asean summit. He then travels on to Shenzhen.
The meeting between Trump, Putin and Xi in China was expected. It raised fears that the heads of state could try to divide the spheres of influence among themselves. Trump has repeatedly taken pro-Russian positions in the Ukraine war and criticized Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. China presents itself as neutral in the Ukraine war; However, Ukraine and the West accuse China of providing decisive support to Russia's war.