Trump to meet with China’s Xi and Russia’s Putin at historic trilateral sit-down

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President Donald Trump will meet jointly next week with China's leader Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin, the White House said on Friday, a first trilateral sit-down…

President Donald Trump will meet jointly next week with China's leader Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin, the White House said on Friday, a first trilateral sit-down between the leaders of the three countries.

The meeting, on the sidelines of the APEC summit in China, will focus on nuclear non-proliferation, a topic Trump has said he believes could yield a new agreement between the world's biggest nuclear-armed states.

"The President has made it clear that, among other topics, he will discuss the reduction of nuclear weapons in the world. This proliferation, President Trump believes, is very dangerous," Olivia Wales, a White House spokesman, told reporters.

The Kremlin says the meeting will take place on 19 November in the Chinese city of Shenzhen, but there has been no confirmation yet from China.

While a trilateral convention taking this exact formation is unprecedented, separately the leaders have a wealth of history.

Since becoming president in 2013, Xi has met Putin dozens of times. The pair have built a close alliance, bound by ties that run deep between their nations.

China has claimed neutrality in the Ukraine war and sought to position itself as a potential peace broker. But NATO allies believe it has been instrumental in Russia's effort to defeat Ukraine, providing Moscow with equipment to support weapon assembly, and contributing technology and imagery.

Trump and Putin have convened in-person on seven different occasions, most recently in Alaska in 2025. The two leaders' relationship has, at times, been tumultuous, but it appears to have strengthened in recent months.

Trump faced a barrage of domestic criticism in October when he suspended fuel export sanctions on Russia for at least six months, allowing Putin to release diesel into the global energy market at a time when US fuel prices were skyrocketing.

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