Trump, Xi and Putin set for trilateral talks in China

The White House has scheduled U.S. President Donald Trump to meet China President Xi Jinping and Russia President Vladimir Putin in China next week for trilateral talks on the sidelines of the APEC summit. White House spokeswoman Olivia Wales said Trump wants to raise nuclear arms reduction, which he called dangerous as proliferation keeps expanding. Senior U.S. officials also put Iran on the agenda, but said Washington does not expect any agreement to emerge from this first meeting. Ukraine was left out deliberately because China is not involved in the separate negotiating track between the U.S., Kyiv and Moscow. Alongside the trilateral talks, Trump is scheduled to hold bilateral meetings and a working lunch with Xi.