China does not want to discuss Ukraine at a meeting with Putin and Trump at the APEC summit in Shenzhen, writes Reuters.
A meeting of the three leaders is scheduled for November 19. Trump wants to use the talks to advance the idea of a trilateral nuclear arms control agreement. China did not like this; It has rejected attempts to discuss nuclear weapons with the US and Russia, which have superior nuclear arsenals.
A White House source told the agency that the Trump administration does not expect to conclude nuclear agreements directly at the upcoming meeting, but "it's time for China to come to the negotiating table, so to speak, and start having grown-up conversations about grown-up things."
One source at the Reuters news agency said that "there have been a lot of meetings with the Russians recently about Ukraine, but China is not really part of that process, so discussing the war in those meetings seems inappropriate."