Putin promotes a new move with Trump and the President of China

Putin proposed a trilateral meeting with Trump and Xi Jinping in Beijing in November, as part of the APEC summit, to discuss the war in Ukraine. The proposal was raised in a meeting with US envoy Steve Witkoff in St. Petersburg.

Russian media reported that Russian President Vladimir Putin expressed willingness to hold a trilateral summit with US President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping in November as part of the APEC summit in China. According to the report, the purpose of the meeting would be to discuss the war in Ukraine. Putin expressed this desire in a meeting he held with US envoy Steve Witkoff in St. Petersburg, a day after Witkoff met in Oslo with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. The article notes that both Trump and Putin visited Beijing in the past year and met with the Chinese president, and that Trump is strengthening ties with the Asian power, while noting that the US still maintains a suspicious policy toward China.