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Trump Says He Will Meet Putin And Xi In China For Denuclearization, Not Ukraine
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Trump willing to meet Putin and Xi in China next month. Agenda prioritizes nuclear disarmament/denuclearization, not solely ending the Ukraine war.
Trump prioritizes denuclearization
President Donald Trump said he would be willing to meet Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping, but he told reporters his priority would be denuclearization efforts rather than ending the war in Ukraine. Trump said, "We would schedule a meeting focused on denuclearization, and that is something very positive for the world," and he added, "I would do it, not so much for Ukraine, because, frankly, Russia has behaved well with Ukraine." The Wall Street Journal previously reported on Moscow’s initiative to bring the three leaders together in a summit.
“The Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) forum will hold a summit in the Chinese city of Shenzhen on November 18 and 19.”
The three leaders could meet on the sidelines of an Asia-Pacific summit in Shenzhen next month, with the APEC forum holding a summit in Shenzhen on November 18 and 19. Trump downplayed Ukraine as the main draw, while he said the summit would focus on denuclearization though it could also address the war in Ukraine.
Kyiv and GOP push back
Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andriy Sybiha warned that a trilateral meeting among Russia, China and the United States would "only have the opposite effect: it would embolden Putin to continue this war," and he argued that Putin should not be given a platform to negotiate Ukraine’s future without Kyiv. Kremlin spokesman Dmitri Peskov stated that the topic of a hypothetical meeting had been mentioned, while he added that "no substantive proposals or agreements, nor about the meeting itself or its possible agenda and content, have been discussed or proposed."
Trump launched verbal attacks against Volodymyr Zelenskyy and told reporters, "Russia, frankly, has been fine on Ukraine," adding, "They haven’t been doing much." GOP Senator Thom Tillis warned that Putin is "playing Trump like a fiddle" and said the president "should know better."
A summit without Ukraine
Beijing has no details while Kiev insists on participating, and Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Mao Ning said she had no information about a possible meeting. Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andriy Sybiha reacted with irritation at the possibility of a meeting without Kiev, and he quoted him saying it would embolden Putin to continue the war. Trump told reporters he would be willing to meet without the Ukrainian president, stating that his priority was to do "everything possible to end the war."
“Unfortunately, we received no early warning from our partners about the first wave of the Russian ballistic missile attack last night.”
Zelenskyy told a bipartisan group of lawmakers that Starlink access and intelligence sharing is still partially degraded, and it quoted Zelenskyy saying, "Unfortunately, we received no early warning from our partners about the first wave of the Russian ballistic missile attack last night." Trump intensified pressure on Zelenskiy by pointing to the leader of the country invaded by Russia as the main obstacle to peace, while Zelenskiy charged that the United States is reducing intelligence support to Kyiv.