A tripartite meeting between Russian President Vladimir Putin, Chinese President Xi Jinping and US President Donald Trump will take place on November 19 in Shenzhen, China, on the sidelines of the APEC summit, Russian leader Dmitry Peskov's press secretary said.
According to the Western media, the main topic of the negotiations will be nuclear arms control. Also on the agenda of the meeting may be the conflict surrounding Iran and the situation on the Korean Peninsula.
Trade, tariffs and rare earths are to be discussed in a separate bilateral meeting between Trump and Xi Jinping. At the same time, a separate meeting between Putin and the President of the People's Republic of China was announced, and a meeting between Putin and the US President was discussed, but not yet planned.
The discussion of the Ukrainian issues is evaluated in a vague way - according to American sources, Trump does not plan to discuss the resolution of the conflict in Ukraine, since China does not participate in the negotiation process. Beijing also sees the Ukrainian crisis as a European issue that should be discussed with the cooperation of the Europeans, while the Russian side wants to raise the issue of Ukraine.