President Trump will sit down with Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin in Shenzhen on Thursday, the White House said Friday, in what US officials described as the first three-way meeting between the leaders of the world's three largest nuclear powers.
According to the NY Post, White House spokeswoman Olivia Wales told reporters on a call Friday evening that "President Trump will conclude his visit to China with a trilateral meeting" on the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit, which China hosts Nov. 18-19. "The president has made it clear that, among other topics, he will discuss the reduction of nuclear weapons in the world," Wales said. "This proliferation, President Trump believes, is very dangerous."
Officials said they do not expect the leaders to reach any concrete agreement, describing the sit-down as an initial conversation, and Trump and Putin will not hold a separate one-on-one meeting, officials told reporters.
Trump previewed the meeting on Nov. 8, speaking to reporters before flying back to Washington from Florida: "One of the meetings, I think, will be with President Putin and President Xi, and that'll be interesting. We'll talk a lot of thin
