WASHINGTON - U.S. President Donald Trump said Sunday he plans to hold talks with Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin in China next week, with discussions to include denuclearization and the U.S. war with Iran.
"One of the meetings, I think, will be with President Putin and President Xi," Trump told reporters in Florida. "We'll talk a lot of things, including denuclearization."
A trilateral meeting, if held, would be a first for the three leaders.
Trump is scheduled to attend the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum summit in Shenzhen, southern China, to be held on Nov. 18 and 19.
Putin had reportedly proposed holding a three-way meeting on Russia's war in Ukraine when he and Trump held telephone talks in October.
Later that month, Trump publicly expressed hope for a trilateral meeting focused instead on denuclearization. He said then that such a meeting would not be "so much for Ukraine because Russia, frankly, has been fine on Ukraine."
Ukraine has been wary of talks without its involvement on ending the war.
Xi will chair this year's APEC summit. Both the United States and Russia are members of the 21-member Pacific Rim forum, which also includes Australia, Japan, Malaysia, the Philippines and Singapore.
