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Trump says he is open to joining trilateral meeting with Xi, Putin

By Thomson Reuters Oct 19, 2026 | 2:40 PM

WASHINGTON, Oct 19 (Reuters) – US President Donald Trump said on ​Monday he is ‌open to participating in a trilateral meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping and ‌Russian ​President Vladimir ⁠Putin and that ⁠it could be focused on denuclearization.

“We would have it to talk ​about nuclear weapons and denuclearization,” Trump ⁠told reporters ⁠outside the White ​House.

“If President Xi wants ​to have it, I’d have ‌it.”

Earlier Monday, the Kremlin said that Putin, Trump and ⁠Xi could hold a three-way meeting on the sidelines ⁠of ‌next month’s APEC ⁠summit in China ​and ‌that a potential ​meeting had ⁠come up in talks.

(Reporting by Trevor Hunnicutt and Ryan Patrick Jones, editing by Bhargav ​Acharya)