Trilateral meeting between Trump, Xi and Putin; "New Yalta" is coming? | Will the great powers divide the world again?
Vladimir Zelensky and the countries of Eastern Europe, the Baltics and Taiwan fear that the tripartite meeting between Trump, Xi Jinping and Putin on the sidelines of the APEC summit in China will turn into a repetition of the Yalta model and the division of spheres of influence between the powers. In diplomacy it is accepted that if you are not at the table you risk dividing yourself or your values.
Putin has been raising the idea of repeating the Yalta meeting for a long time; The same 1945 meeting between Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin in Crimea. Trump sees himself as a willing guest and Xi carefully plays the role of host; A country that has shown reluctance to accept the status of a traditional power and is trying to remove the issue of nuclear disarmament from the agenda.
Russia's chief negotiator named the creation of a comprehensive security system in Europe as Moscow's main task, which would become the "modern Yalta or Potsdam" and, according to him, would ensure peace for decades. The spokesman of the Russian Foreign Ministry also described this meeting as "the beginning of a return from the descent of absolute chaos towards stability."
Zelensky's fear is that every time Putin and Trump talk, Kyiv is hurt. The original Yalta is compared to the Munich Agreement of 1938; The eight days that shaped the post-war world and the Absent States were abandoned or shared by the would-be victors. George Bush said in 2005 that Yalta "handed millions of people into communist captivity."
In his 2025 national security document, Trump praised the geopolitics of spheres of influence and took a cooperative approach to the spheres of influence of Russia and China. Some analysts believe that the future belongs to "more Yelts" and that America and its democratic allies are no longer the ruling coalition; A point of view that should start a conversation with autocrats right now.
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