Trump, Putin, Xi to hold first-ever trilateral meeting at APEC Summit in China next week

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Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping will hold rare trilateral talks in China. The meeting is expected to open a longer conversation on reducing global nuclear arsenals.

US President Donald Trump, Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping are set to hold the first-ever trilateral meeting in China next week, with nuclear arms control expected to dominate the discussions.

The White House on Friday confirmed that the leaders of the world's three biggest nuclear powers will meet on the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit in Shenzhen.

Trump has repeatedly called for discussions on reducing nuclear arsenals, but Washington has played down expectations of an immediate breakthrough, describing the proposed engagement as the beginning of a longer conversation.

"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," White House spokeswoman Olivia Wales told reporters.

Wales said Trump would push for a reduction in the global nuclear arsenal, which he considers a serious threat.

"He will discuss the reduction of nuclear weapons in the world, whose proliferation President Trump believes is very dangerous," she said.

However, the proposed talks could prove challenging, given Beijing's longstanding reluctance to negotiate directly with Washington on its nuclear arsenal. China has maintained that arms reduction discussions should primarily involve the US and Russia, which possess significantly larger stockpiles.

A senior US administration official acknowledged the difficulty, saying Washington hoped the meeting would pave the way for more substantive discussions rather than produce an immediate agreement.

"This is a difficult topic for China to address, but we do think it's time for China to sort of step up, you know, to the adults' table, if you will, and have adult conversations about adult things," the official said.

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