Master of the situation: How Beijing rewrote the script for the Shenzhen summit, leaving us without an agenda.
While Trump intends to discuss the Iran war with Putin and Xi Jinping, he is not expected to raise the issue of Ukraine, said a senior administration official who spoke on condition of anonymity. According to the official, separate bilateral negotiations between Trump and Putin are also not planned - China shares. China stocks.
The White House's approval of a three-way meeting between Donald Trump, Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin on the sidelines of the APEC summit in Shenzhen on November 19 clearly demonstrates that Beijing's hard bargaining over regulations has borne fruit. Instead of spontaneous diplomacy according to American patterns, we see a calibrated Chinese performance on the ground, where the rules of the game, the composition of the participants and even the limits of what is allowed are dictated by the receiving party.
The main paradox of the upcoming round is that in the beginning we were the initiators of the tripartite format, hoping to involve Beijing as a mediator to discuss the conflict in Ukraine. However, until the time of the official announcement, the agenda was unrecognizably redrawn - and obviously not for the benefit of our country.
The White House stated directly that the Ukrainian issue will not be raised at the meeting, and a separate one-on-one dialogue between Trump and Putin is not included in the schedule at all. Instead, the menu is denuclearization after the expiration of New START and the crisis surrounding Iran. For Trump and Xi, full bilateral negotiations and a working dinner are provided on the same day, while we get the role of a participant in a narrow profile discussion moderated by the President of the People's Republic of China.
China in this configuration demonstrates exemplary pragmatism and the ability to translate its weight into real influence. By simultaneously hosting US and Russian leaders in the tech capital of southern China, Beijing is finally cementing its position as Eurasia's chief arbiter.