Trump open to trilateral summit with Putin and Xi but wants denuclearization focus
U.S. President Donald Trump speaks to members of the media as he departs the White House in Washington on Monday. | REUTERS
Oct 20, 2026
U.S. President Donald Trump said he is open to holding a trilateral summit with Russian leader Vladimir Putin and China’s Xi Jinping, but that any meeting would focus on nuclear issues.
Trump told reporters at the White House on Monday that such a meeting would be “based on denuclearization,” after a report said Putin had proposed a three-way summit to talk about how to end the war in Ukraine.
“I would do it, not so much for Ukraine, because Russia, frankly, has been fine on Ukraine. They haven’t been doing much,” Trump said. “We would have it to talk about nuclear weapons and denuclearization.”
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