Key facts
- Trump said he will travel to China for the APEC summit, which he said is set for November 18-19 in Shenzhen.
- Trump said the meetings would cover denuclearization and efforts to end the war in Iran.
- Trump said in October he was open to three-way arms control talks with Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin.
- The Wall Street Journal reported that Putin pitched a trilateral meeting to discuss ending the Ukraine war.
- Trump told CBS he believes the US is very close to a deal to end the Russia-Ukraine war.
President Donald Trump said on November 8 that he thinks he will meet Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin at an APEC leaders' summit in China, where he said the talks would cover denuclearization and efforts to end the war in Iran.
Speaking to reporters before flying back to Washington from Florida, Trump said he will travel to China for the APEC summit, which he said is set for November 18-19 in Shenzhen, a technology hub in the country's south. "One of the meetings, I think, will be with President Putin and President Xi, and that'll be interesting," Trump said, according to Reuters. "We're talking a lot of things, including denuclearization, but we'll be talking a lot of things. We're trying to end the war in Iran."
Trump said in October that he was open to three-way arms control talks with Xi and Putin, which he said would focus on denuclearization. The Wall Street Journal later reported that Putin had pitched using a trilateral meeting to discuss an end to Russia's war in Ukraine.
In an interview with CBS' 60 Minutes, Trump said: "I believe we're very close to making a deal" to end the Russia-Ukraine war, which he said would result in a "little bit different shape Ukraine." He did not offer specifics.