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US President Donald Trump will meet Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin in Shenzhen next week for trilateral talks on the sidelines of the APEC summit, the White House said Friday, according to Anadolu Agency.
Assistant Press Secretary Olivia Wales told reporters that Trump would discuss reducing nuclear weapons worldwide, among other issues. She said the president considers their proliferation “very dangerous.”
Before the trilateral meeting, Trump will hold bilateral talks and a working lunch with Xi on Thursday afternoon, Wales said. The meeting with Xi will precede the conclusion of Trump’s visit to China.
A senior US official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said Washington does not expect the talks to produce an agreement. The official described them as “the entry point, the first conversation” between the countries’ leaders.
The official said China’s nuclear arsenal is “growing by far the fastest in the world” and argued that Beijing should “step up to the adult table.”
Trump plans to discuss Iran at the trilateral meeting but not Ukraine, the official said, because China is not part of the separate US-Russia track.
