White House confirms Trump-Xi-Putin trilateral summit in China, Iran and nuclear arms on agenda

The White House confirmed to The Jerusalem Post that US President Donald Trump will hold a trilateral summit with Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin during his upcoming visit to China, with the war in Iran and the possibility of reducing the three countries' nuclear arsenals among the issues on the agenda.The meeting will take place toward the end of Trump's visit to Shenzhen, following his scheduled bilateral meeting and working lunch with Xi on Thursday afternoon, November 19. The White House did not specify the exact date or time of the trilateral summit."The President has made it clear that, among other topics, he will discuss the reduction of nuclear weapons in the world, whose proliferation President Trump believes is very dangerous," White House Assistant Press Secretary Olivia Wales added.During a briefing that the Post attended, senior US officials cautioned that the administration does not expect the first meeting to produce a nuclear arms control agreement but that it may begin the process."We do not expect to get to any kind of agreement," a senior US official said, describing the summit as "the entry point, the first conversation."Time for China to have 'adult conversations,'