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US President Donald Trump, Chinese President Xi Jinping, and Russian President Vladimir Putin will meet Thursday in China on the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit, the White House announced. APEC is taking place from November 18 to 19 in Shenzhen.
“The president has made it clear that he will address, among other things, the issue of reducing the number of nuclear weapons in the world. President Trump believes that this proliferation is very dangerous,” a White House spokeswoman said Friday.
“I think the president fully intends to raise the issue of Iran during the trilateral meeting with Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin,” echoed a U.S. official speaking on condition of anonymity during a press call.
But “Washington is conducting a completely different line of negotiations” with Kyiv and Moscow, he added, specifying that China was “not really part of that line of negotiations. It therefore does not seem appropriate to address the issue of Ukraine.”
Lunch with Xi
Entrepreneur Elon Musk will accompany Donald Trump on his trip, but will not take part in the meeting.
The US president will also host a lunch with Xi Jinping on Thursday. This will be their fourth meeting since the Republican returned to the White House in January 2025. However, there are no plans for Donald Trump to meet with Vladimir Putin alone.
Nvidia not on the agenda for the meeting
“Nvidia’s situation shouldn’t really have an impact on the trip,” added a second US official, speaking on condition of anonymity, regarding Jensen Huang’s recent resignation due in part to his relationship with a woman accused of spying for China.
“We do not negotiate U.S. export controls. These are national security issues that we deal with within the administration and we do not expect them to be addressed in our discussions with the Chinese,” the senior official continued.
The issue of export controls for electronic chip technologies is at the heart of the Nvidia scandal.
Donald Trump will leave the United States on Monday and arrive in the Philippines on Tuesday, before traveling to Shenzhen.
