Trump, Xi, Putin to meet in China: White House
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US President Donald Trump, Russia's Vladimir Putin and China's Xi Jinping will hold a rare three-way meeting next week on the sidelines of an Asia-Pacific summit in Shenzhen, China, the White House said Friday.
"The president has made it clear that, among other topics, he will discuss the reduction of nuclear weapons in the world. This proliferation, President Trump believes, is very dangerous," White House spokeswoman Olivia Wales told reporters of the talks, set for Thursday.
Trump will discuss Iran with his Chinese and Russian counterparts in the talks, but is not expected to talk about Russia's war on Ukraine, a senior US official cited by AFP said Friday.
"I think the president does intend to talk about Iran in the trilateral meeting with Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin," the US official, speaking on condition of anonymity, told reporters on a call ahead of Thursday's meeting in Shenzhen.
But Washington has a "whole other track" of negotiations with Kyiv and Moscow, the official added. "China is not really a part of that track, so it doesn't seem appropriate to have the Ukraine discussion there."
