Trump will have historic meeting with Xi, Putin in China to talk nuclear arms control

Steven Nelson / NEW YORK POST 

 

WASHINGTON — President Trump will hold a historic summit with Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin next Thursday on the sidelines of the annual APEC conference in Shenzhen — with the discussion expected to focus largely on developing an

It will be the first-ever trilateral meeting between leaders of the three countries.

A White House official told The Post that discussions in the Chinese boomtown near Hong Kong also could touch on the war in Iran and North Korea.

The summit was first reported by The Post and later described to a broader group of reporters on a Friday evening call previewing Trump’s trip next week to Asia, which will feature an initial stop in the Philippines.

Trump hasn’t met with Putin in person since a summit last August in Alaska focused on his efforts to broker an end to the war in Ukraine, a topic that one US official said was unlikely to be raised in Shenzhen. Read more, and see photos here.