Trump Says He Would Be Open to Meeting With Putin and Xi

U.S. president said he would be willing to discuss denuclearization with leaders of Russia and China

WASHINGTON—President Trump said Monday that he would be open to meeting with the leaders of Russia and China to discuss denuclearization.

Trump’s comments came after The Wall Street Journal reported that Russian President Vladimir Putin has proposed that he, Trump and Chinese leader Xi Jinping meet next month to talk about Ukraine in an attempt to negotiate an end to the four-year conflict that would favor Moscow.

Trump told reporters that he would be willing to join such a trilateral meeting, “not so much for Ukraine, because Russia, frankly, has been fine on Ukraine, they haven’t been doing much—and the same thing with China.” Rather, he said, “we would have it to talk about nuclear weapons and denuclearization.”

Trump said a meeting about denuclearization between leaders of the three countries would be “a very positive thing for the world.” Such a meeting would likely be held in China, he said.

Trump is scheduled to visit China next month for a meeting between countries of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation, which would be his second visit to China in his second term.

While China hasn’t objected to the idea of a trilateral summit, according to sources familiar with the recent discussions, it is unclear whether Xi would agree to Trump’s proposed topic. Beijing has repeatedly refused to engage in arms control talks in the past.

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I would like to know why the professional women basketball players leave the floor BEFORE the national anthem and don't come out again until AFTER the anthem was over.
THAT says it all. They take the good $$$ that the women's leagues pay but STAND UP for our national anthem? Not a chance.

I'd like to send them all to Paris with all those protesters. GIANT ah****s of the FIRST order.

You would think they would get it by now. This is how Trump operates. Sometimes it works. Sometimes it doesn't

But as Wayne Gretzky once said: "...I’ve learned that 100 percent of the shots you don’t take don’t go in the net..."

“President Trump said Monday that he would be open to meeting with the leaders of Russia and China to discuss denuclearization.”

Hard to see how Zelensky will permit this.

It’s not about “de-nuclearization”, that’s a bait-and-switch con

Pootin is trying to get Trump to get Trump to agree to dividing the World into 3 spheres of influence - controlled by the US, China and, naturally, Russia

Everybody else would get shut out

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