Trump believes he will meet Putin and Xi during the APEC summit in China

President Donald Trump stated on Sunday that he anticipates meeting Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin at an APEC leaders’ summit in China next week to talk about resolving the war in Iran and denuclearization.

Before returning to Washington from Florida, Trump informed reporters that he will head to China for the APEC summit scheduled for November 18-19 in the southern tech center of Shenzhen.

“One of the meetings, I think, will be with President Putin and President Xi, and that’ll be interesting. We’re talking ​a lot of things, including denuclearization, but we’ll ​be talking a lot of things. We’re trying to end the ‌war ⁠in Iran,” he said

In October, Trump declared that he was amenable to three-way arms control negotiations with Xi and Putin that would center on denuclearization. Putin has proposed holding a trilateral summit to discuss ending Russia’s protracted war in Ukraine, according to a later Wall Street Journal article.
In an interview with CBS’s 60 Minutes program, Trump stated that “I believe we’re very close to negotiating a deal” to stop the conflict between Russia and Ukraine, which would lead to a “little bit different shape Ukraine,” but he did not provide any details.vent extremist teachings and the exploitation of vulnerable communities.