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Trump, Xi and Putin will hold their first three-way meeting at the Apec summit in Shenzhen next week, the White House says

What happened
The White House confirmed an unprecedented meeting of the US, Chinese and Russian leaders on the sidelines of the Apec summit in Shenzhen at the end of Trump’s China visit.
Why it matters
It comes nine months after the last US-Russia nuclear arms treaty expired; Trump wants a new deal that includes China.
What’s next
A senior US official said no agreement is expected; Moscow and Beijing had not commented, the BBC reported.

How this story developed

  1. 03:30First report
  2. 07:552nd source
  3. 07:55Confirmed
  4. 08:523rd source
  1. 03:30First reportSouth China Morning Post
  2. 07:552nd sourceAl Jazeera English
  3. 07:55ConfirmedWas: Single source
  4. 08:52Latest3rd sourceBBC News World
Full story

An unprecedented meeting

The leaders of the United States, China and Russia will meet next week on the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (Apec) summit in Shenzhen, the White House said on Friday, according to the South China Morning Post, Al Jazeera and the BBC.

“President Trump will conclude his visit to China with a trilateral meeting between the president of the United States, the president of the People’s Republic of China, and the president of the Russian Federation.”

Olivia Wales, White House assistant press secretary, BBC News World

Trump arrives in Shenzhen late on Wednesday for the two-day summit of 21 member economies and holds bilateral talks with Xi Jinping on Thursday, their fourth meeting since he returned to office in 2025, the BBC said. Before that he attends an Asean summit in the Philippines on Tuesday.

Nuclear arms on the table

Wales said Trump would discuss reducing nuclear weapons. The New START treaty, the last cap on US and Russian arsenals, lapsed in February, Al Jazeera noted; Trump rejected Russia’s offer to extend it for a year and demanded a “new, improved and modernised” deal that includes China. Russia holds the most warheads, followed by the US and then China, according to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute.

Iran is expected to come up, but Russia’s war in Ukraine is not, according to a senior US official who briefed reporters. Elon Musk will travel with Trump but will not attend the meeting, Al Jazeera reported.

Low expectations

“We do not expect to get to any kind of agreement,” a senior administration official told Reuters, describing the meeting as the start of a conversation. The plan has drawn comparisons with the 1945 Yalta conference; Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov dismissed the parallel but called the meeting “extremely significant”, Al Jazeera said.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has voiced concern that the meeting could be used to discuss a Ukraine deal behind Kyiv’s back, Al Jazeera reported.