Donald Trump is expected to meet Chinese leader Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin next Thursday in what would be the first trilateral summit of the three leaders, according to a report from the New York Post citing unnamed sources. The meeting would reportedly take place in China, likely on the sidelines of the APEC summit in Shenzhen.
The central item on the agenda is a nuclear arms agreement that Trump has pursued since his first term in office. He has argued that large nuclear stockpiles are unnecessarily costly, and he has said that denuclearization will be discussed at the meeting. The reporting also indicates that the war in Iran and the situation on the Korean Peninsula could come up in talks.
The war in Ukraine may also be raised, though the report suggests it is not expected to be a top item. Trump has not formally confirmed the details of the summit beyond general remarks, so the plans rest on the newspaper's sourcing for now.
Several questions remain open. It is not yet clear whether the summit will take place as reported, whether any arms agreement would be reached, or whether Beijing and Moscow would commit to negotiations on the issues Trump has raised. Any meeting of this kind would bring together three of the world's largest nuclear powers, which is why even the preliminary reports have drawn attention in Washington and abroad.