White House announces Trump's three-way meeting with Putin and Xi

At the APEC summit in China Trump wants to meet with Putin and Xi As of: November 14, 2026 • 4:18 a.m

It would be the first three-way meeting of the heads of state of the USA, Russia and China. According to the White House, it will take place at the upcoming APEC summit in Shenzhen. Main topic: the dismantling of nuclear weapons. The Iran war could also come up.

US President Donald Trump, Chinese President Xi Jinping and Kremlin chief Vladimir Putin will meet in China next week for a three-way meeting, according to the White House. It should also be about a possible reduction in global nuclear weapons stocks, it was said from Washington. “He will talk about the global dismantling of nuclear weapons, the proliferation of which President Trump considers to be very dangerous,” said presidential office spokeswoman Olivia Wales.

The meeting will take place on Thursday on the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) forum in Shenzhen, China. It is the first meeting of its kind. So far there have only been bilateral talks between the nuclear powers.

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A US official tempered expectations that the nuclear weapons talk would produce concrete results or an agreement. Rather, this should be viewed as an introduction. In the past, Trump had repeatedly brought up a new disarmament treaty. The New Start treaty concluded between Russia and the USA in 2010 expired this year. New Start limited the number of strategic nuclear warheads and the number of operational launchers.

Trump will also bring up the US and Israeli war against Iran, said a senior government official. He is unlikely to talk about the Russian war in Ukraine.

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