Trump, Putin and Xi plan to meet in Shenzhen next week, the White House says.
The White House says Trump will discuss nuclear arms reductions with Putin and Xi during his visit to Shenzhen next week.
Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping plan a China trilateral meeting next week, the White House has announced. The leaders will hold talks alongside the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (Apec) summit in Shenzhen.
White House spokeswoman Olivia Wales said Trump would raise the reduction of nuclear weapons during the discussions. She added that the US president considers nuclear proliferation highly dangerous.
However, a senior American official, speaking anonymously, said the talks were unlikely to produce an agreement. The planned discussion will bring together the presidents of the United States, Russia and China.
China trilateral meeting to conclude Trump’s visit
Trump will arrive in the southern Chinese city late on Wednesday for the two-day Apec summit. The gathering brings together the forum’s 21 members.
He will also hold separate talks with Xi on Thursday, ahead of the planned three-way meeting. Their bilateral discussion will mark their fourth meeting since Trump returned to office in 2025.
Wales said the meeting with Xi and Putin would conclude Trump’s visit to China. Before travelling there, Trump will attend an Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) summit in the Philippines on Tuesday.
The spokeswoman also presented the regional trip as an effort to advance American interests in the Indo-Pacific. She said the administration expected the visit to deliver significant gains for Americans.
