Trump, Putin, Xi Jinping to meet in first trilateral of its kind
President Donald Trump, Russian President Vladimir Putin and China's President Xi Jinping will hold the first three-way meeting among the three leaders at a summit in China next week, the White House said Friday.
The three leaders will meet on the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit in the southern Chinese city, White House spokeswoman Olivia Wales told reporters.
Mr. Trump wants to talk about reducing nuclear arsenals at the trilateral talks on Thursday and is also set to bring up his war in Iran.
However, he is not expected to discuss Russia's war in Ukraine, officials said.
Topics and limits of the talks
Washington has a 'whole other track' of negotiations with Kyiv and Moscow aimed at ending the war in Ukraine, the official added, referring to talks that U.S. envoys have had in recent days with Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymymyr Zelensky.
China is not really a part of that track, so it doesn't seem appropriate to have the Ukraine discussion there.
The U.S. also did not plan to discuss export controls on sensitive chip technology, which were at the heart of the Nvidia scandal.
We do not negotiate American export controls. These are national security matters that we develop in the administration... and we don't expect it to figure at all in any of our conversations with the Chinese while we're there.
Trip schedule and delegation
Tesla and SpaceX boss Elon Musk will accompany Trump on his trip to China but will not be involved in the meeting with Xi and Putin, the officials said.
Trump will leave Washington on Monday and arrive in the Philippines on Tuesday for a summit of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) before heading to Shenzhen.
He will also hold a bilateral working lunch and meeting with the Chinese president on Thursday — their fourth meeting since the president's return to power last year.
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