Trump to Meet Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin in China, White House Confirms
The White House has confirmed that US President Donald Trump will meet Chinese President Xi Jinping and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin in China.
Earlier, US magazine *The New York Post* reported that a meeting between the three world leaders was likely to take place on Thursday in the Chinese city of Shenzhen.
According to the report, discussions are expected to focus on nuclear arms control, with North Korea, Ukraine and Iran also likely to feature on the agenda.
A White House spokesperson said the meeting would include discussions on reducing nuclear weapons. However, US officials have indicated that no agreement is expected to be reached during the talks.
The anticipated meeting between the presidents of the United States, China and Russia is being compared to the historic Yalta Conference of 1945, held after World War II. At that conference, US President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Soviet leader Joseph Stalin agreed on new territorial arrangements in Europe.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has also drawn a parallel between the expected Trump-Xi-Putin meeting and the Yalta Conference, expressing concern over its potential implications.
Zelenskyy warned that Shenzhen could become a 21st-century version of Yalta, potentially leading to an agreement on the redistribution of global spheres of influence among major powers.
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